A spouse, parent or friend can stay in the room with the mother at our
hospital. Ours is a little tiny military hospital with NO nursery. If
things are that bad, the baby will go out to the nurse's station for a bit.

Ginger Chun, BA, IBCLC, RLC
Breastfeeding Education and Support
www.freshmilkbaby.com


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Susan A. Gehrman <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> To those of you working in hospitals, I was wondering if any of you would
> share your experiences regarding rooming in of all  normal babies (no night
> nursery).
> How do you handle the mothers who are C section, especially 1 day post op
> still using strong pain medications?  We do not yet have a policy in place
> but have trialed it a few times and have had patients and families
> challenge us about it, refusing  to even try it when assured that we would
> help them with any baby needs.  These are not necessarily moms who are
> breastfeeding either.  They don't always have someone staying with them.
>  When the explanations don't seem to work, what have you found is helpful?
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
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