Dear Friends: Great work Pam, in supporting the nurse and in delaying a circumcision. At one hospital where I work, the OBs are back to doing circumcisions in the delivery room again. Those poor boy babies: induced, cut out of their mothers (sometimes with a vacuum assist as well), and then injured again. And folks expect them to act normally and breastfeed? The circumcisions for religous reasons are on the 8th day of life, which is lovely because then the baby's clotting factors are in full effect, and the mother and baby have had time to develop a strong breastfeeding relationship. warmly, Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE Lactation Consultant, Philadephia Department of Public Health Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty, Union Institute and University Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com *********************************************** 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