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Re: Wrong Milk
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Kathy Koncelik <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:49:31 -0500
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                                                BULLSEYE!

Kathy


On Mar 19, 2004, at 3:50 AM, heather wrote:

> I think it's not so much fear of infection that makes mothers
> distressed if their preterm or sick baby has the wrong milk, or their
> milk gets given to another baby - though this may be how they
> rationalise their upset.
>
> It's because they have shed sweat and tears expressing, doing the one
> special thing only they can do for their baby...for *their* baby, not
> someone else's in the next crib.
>
> Mixing it up is human error, of course, but it looks as if staff
> don't care about the precious link this mother is making with her
> baby.  It is profoundly disrespectful.
>
> This is quite a different emotional and psychological context to the
> term, healthy baby at home and lucky enough to be with a mother and
> her loving and giving and sharing breastfeeding friends.
>
> If it happened to me,  I would be so angry....yet I have breastfed my
> friend's baby happily, and she was happy for me to do so.
>
> Heather Welford Neil
> NCT bfc, UK
>
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As always . . . .
        Wishing you all the best!
--K

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