In a message dated 8/12/0 1:19:41 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< Mother was given Demerol about forty-five
minutes before the baby was born.   Baby had not nursed by six hours and by
eight hours the staff was trying finger feeding, syringes, SNS and bottles
of formula.  Hmm, I wonder why they didn't try cup feeding too.    When I
saw the baby at eight days, she was getting expressed breast milk by bottle
and the mother was exhausted. <snip> Has anyone ever considered observing the
baby?>>

How could you even see the baby under all of that paraphanalia? At least
everybody can say they "tried", right? An analogy quickly comes to mind--try
to help a butterfly out of its chrysalis and it dies....

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