After reading the responses about leaving the baby on the breast for their lab draws, I started my rounds and wondered if this could be done in my unit. I know many of our techs would bring the baby to the nursery because they "didn't want to upset the parents". So soon after helping one of my momslatch-on, in walked one of our young lab techs to do our Ohio Dep of Health metabolic and supplemental screening tests that require alot of blood. I asked her if she could do the tests in the room and she said yes. Then I asked her if she would do it while the baby was nursing. She stopped for a moment and before she said anything, I started my speech about the value of nursing during painful procedures etc, and she said she had just read about a study that said that nursing/breastmilk helped the pain etc. We then had a great conversation about nursing. I must say, I never expected that response, so now I can pass that on to the next tech who may be reluctant. It made my overwhelming day a whole lot nicer! Pamela Edenfield MSN, RNC, CNS, CLC, IBCLC Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist Lactation Consultant Youngstown, Ohio *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html