> I remember posting about a mom of a preemie quite a while ago and the
> fact that the hospital would not allow her to bring in her own EBM. I
> have come across, once again, this policy. Do your hospitals also
> forbid moms to bring in EBM and force them to supply only that which is
> pumped on the premises?
>

In my NICU we show the moms how to pump and label the bottles with their
name and the date and time the milk was pumped. They certainly do bring
milk from home, sometimes fresh and sometimes frozen. Their milk is
given to their babies, without regard to where they were when it was
pumped.



Anne Stringer, RN, NICU
Michigan, USA
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