>>>In the hospital where I work, babies are taken out to their mothers to
feed every four hours whether they are awake or not.  Mothers are not
allowed to sleep with their babies.

"Not allowed to"?

They tried to pull that on me, when I had my second son.  With my first,
(different hospital) the nurses had set me up for co-sleeping.  It wasn't
even something I'd thought of, but it made breastfeeding so much simpler,
right from the start.  I was never engorged.  I think this had a lot to do
with breastfeeding, "on demand" from the start.  So, when they told me, with
DS#2 that it was "against hospital policy" for him to sleep with me, I was
floored.

Such an archaic mode of doing things.

That statement, "Mothers are not allowed to..." really aggravates me.
Treating new, and experienced, moms like they (the staff) are in charge, and
the moms are just... not important, or not able to make their own choices?
Taking power away from the mom.

(BTW, what I did was turn into a really cranky person.  Every time they
quoted "hospital policy", I asked WHY and they left me alone.)

-Saara Harvie LLLCL
Flin Flon, Canada

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