Barbara Latterner posted on a case in which mother with an epidural
developed fever in labor.  Her baby was kept isolated from her for the first
12 hours.

I would like to know on what evidence the hospital, be it the obs or the
peds, separates a mother from her newborn baby because mother has a fever.
Even if the fever were infectious in origin, the baby has already been
exposed to every bug in the mother's body, and the mother has exactly the
right antibodies to protect it with, in her colostrum and later in her milk.

There is no form of observation of the newborn who is behaving normally,
that justifies a 12 hour separation from mother.  They were both in the same
hospital, right?  So I would offer the ob a TRADE, your references on
epidural and fever, and oxytocin and edema, for hers on separation.  Sheesh!

Rachel Myr
cantankerous and impatient with superstition-based practice
Kristiansand, Norway

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