This issue has been one of my huge pet peeves over the last few  years. Our 
hospital went from 90minutes of general visiting hours to general  visiting 
hours from 11am to 8pm!!! I work 12 hour night shifts and by the time  visiting 
hours are over moms are cross eyed tired and some in tears. They won't  nurse 
the babies during the visiting hours, they  only get one meal where  the 
visitors aren't there, but then we are. They are too tired to nurse at night  and 
send the babies back to the nursery, often giving in to many of the pushy  staff 
we have who insist they are doing mom a favor. Instead of trying to get  her 
an undisturbed block of sleep, the answer is always to give the baby a  
bottle. I have been to my manager about this over and over and she says it's  what 
the patients want and always points out when a  patient has a postive  comment 
on the hours and apparently they don't complain when she makes rounds in  the 
daytime. We have very few moms that leave the hospital exclusively  
breastfeeding. And today the newest little tidbit was forcing a mom to pump as  the baby 
wouldn't latch, and using fortifier in what milk she did get.  AARRGGHHH. 
  I've already cut my hours to parttime to decrease my level of  frustration 
but I'm ready to cut some more as I am totally outnumbered. We  have 1 IBCLC"s 
on during the day but she also has in the role of  patient educator for the 
whole unit as well. My manager allows both Ross and  Mead in to peddle their 
products so that way they get goodies from both of them  and they charge $1.00 
for each sterile water bottle, volufeed and pacifier,  formula still free. How 
do you keep functioning in this kind of atmosphere. The  mom's I do get to 
work with really appreciate it but the rest is starting to  negate even that. 
Sherry Weersing RNC

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