Mandi, what are your visiting hours like on your maternity unit? I think the
change on our unit to extremly liberal hours (11am-8pm for all visitors) has
been a major setback to breastfeeding. I come in at 7pm and moms are
cross-eyed exhausted because they've had visitors all day and really haven't
spent time working on feeding the baby and now are too tired and want the
baby sent to the nursery. We've tried to get them changed but keep being told
that "it's what the patients want".
  If yours are as liberal and you can get them changed that may help the
nighttime breastfeeding issues. I try to make sure my moms get naps and
realize that nighttime frequent feeding is normal but am usually too late by
the time I get there. Good Luck. Sherry Weersing RNC

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