Hi all, I have been following the posts on LC and frustration and it is all too familiar. Having been in Maternal/Child health for 24 years and 12 of that as an IBCLC I understand where you all are coming from. My work partner was the supervisor of the Mother Baby Home Health for many years and we started to see a pattern of behavior and causal factors related to just what all of you are saying. (pt doesn't remember what was told to them, they hear one thing when you said something totally different). We termed it (some of you may have heard me speak on this topic) Cognitive Vacation- The inability to process information related to thinking, reasoning, remembering, imagining or learning. This became very apparent to me one day when a mom called me asking for Mrs. Lansinoh. Now Lansinoh was one of the last words I had stated to this new mom just before I left the room. This made a lasting impression on me. So now I restate the most important thing I want the mom to remember as I'm leaving the room. With shorter hospital stays and new mother being asked to do more with less support I think "Cognitive Vacation" will be something we will be dealing with long into the future. Crystal Stearns RNC, MS, IBCLC Mercy Memorial Health Center Ardmore, OK 73401 *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html