Dear Friends:
 
Christine tells an inspiring story. Thank you, Christine, for sharing this  
wonderful news.
 
I had a labor and delivery nurse speak out at a training I gave. She talked  
of how she used to hate breastfeeding, because it meant more time spent 
working  when she already had so much to do after the baby was born. She described a 
 scene where she spent 20 minutes trying to make breastfeeding occur. At the 
end  of 20 minutes, she was angry, the mother was feeling like a failure and 
the baby  was furious. As the nurse had many other tasks to finish, she bundled 
the mother  and baby s2s and went about her work. About 2 minutes later, the 
mother  whispered "the baby's nursing". This wonderful nurse went on to extol 
the value  of s2s, and is making converts at work. 
 
My slogan when I teach maternity staff is "skin to skin saves nurses  
work!"........because it does. Everybody wins with skin to skin. (A rhyming  slogan!) 
Baby's blood sugar and temperature stay high, baby is calm, baby  
self-attaches, mother connects with baby.........and the nurse can do everything  that 
has to be done, from checking a fundus to measuring a temperature to giving  the 
Vitamin K injection. 
 
This is most exciting, and makes me optimistic that breastfeeding  initiation 
rates can be boosted in the whole USA!!
 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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