Dear Friends:
It is easier than I would have ever believed to bring a wrong baby from
the nursery to a mother. I did it, for the first time ever in over 30 years
of clinical practice.
I am privileged to work as a hospital LC. It is hard work, as many have
posted about here on LACTNET. There is such a lack of respect for
breastfeeding, and mothers and babies in hospitals.
In the morning, the LC is to go to the nursery to get report on babies.
Whenever I go, there are always squalling babies. I find this upsetting,
because the more I work as a LC, the more I understand what babies are saying. I
hear all these babies screaming for their mothers and screaming in pain,
anger and distress. The last time I worked, there were at least 10 babies
yelling. I asked if there were any breastfeeding babies that I could take back to
their mothers. A nurse told me to take the twins; each of whom was in a
separate isolette. She said I could put both twins in the isolette so I found each
isolette and then was asked a question, which I answered. The level of noise
in the nursery was very high and I swiftly put one baby in the isolette of the
other and left.
And that is how I brought one twin back with the wrong baby.
Fortunately, a nurse picked up the mistake and followed me swiftly to get the baby and
the mother was not the one to discover the error. So the system does work.
Not a pleasant experience.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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