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Date: | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:38:06 EDT |
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I felt the need to quickly join in on the thread related to covering the
infant's hands with the cuff at the end of the t-shirt. What is started in the
hospital or modeled by the clinician is something that parents will continue
doing at home. I saw a patient one time who kept her baby's hands tucked into
those miserable cuffs because her health care providers and family kept
telling her that the baby would scratch his face if the hands were not covered.
She came in to see me because she had sore nipples. When she went to put the
baby to the breast, one nipple was oozing so much pus it stuck to her bra. When
we went to put the baby to the other breast I noticed that his hands were
cuffed and removed the cuffs so that his hands could massage the breasts (like
a kitten), as that kneading of the hands is part of the feeding response.
What I saw was that every tiny fingernail had an infected hangnail on each side
of it. Three quarters of one thumb had turned black. What a mess. I guess I
must weigh in on the side of allowing those little hands to feel the soft
warmth of the mother's breast and knead the tissue like they were intended.
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA
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