Yes, thank you, Janice, for pointing out that excellent article by Dr. Linda Palmer. I just ordered her book "Baby Matters" (no financial interest) as I have seen excerpts here and there on the chemistry of attachment that make such sound physiologic sense that I feel I have to read the entire book. Also, have to share an incident yesterday at the hospital. Like many other hospitals, ours has jumped on the bandwagon with new GBS/chorio protocols. Is it my imagination, or are more women being diagonsed with chorioamniotitis because they "spiked a little temp" in labor thereby condemning their babies to a minimum of a 2 day course of antibiotics in SCN? Some of our SCN nurses/neos will allow a breast baby to be out in mom's room ad lib (yea!) during their shift; others put the baby on the time clock, only allowing an hour max for feeding. This is upsetting and confusing to the parents to say the least. Yesterday, one of the SCN nurses came up to me upset that I was "sabotaging" (her word) her baby because I was encouraging the parents to room in as much as possible so that nursing could be established. The neo had told the parents that baby could be out ad lib and that formula supplements (another battle) were no longer needed. So I did have MD backing. The nurse was upset because baby was out with mom and because this was so, she did not "have a baby to take care of"! The point was...? I was struck speechless! Who are we here for? Ourselves and our protocols? Or the mother/baby dyad? Needless to say, I am working with the director of neo and the SCN manager on coming up with a consistent written protocol as to the length of time these "rule out" healthy babies can room in with parents. Thanks for listening to my vent. Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** 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