In a message dated 11/6/2005 4:12:44 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
[log in to unmask] writes:

My  experience is that nurses on paediatric wards seem to get hardened 
to the  sound of babies screaming - maybe it's the only way they can 
get their job  done.


Dear Friends:
    Over the course of the many years that I have been  working in 
breastfeeding, I have gotten better at understanding what babies are  saying. My 
tolerance for screaming babies is nil, even less than when I began my  lactation 
career. I even brought a wrong baby out to a mother once because I got  rattled 
and wanted to rescue a baby from that den of anguish, the so-called  nursery. 
(Fortunately, the mix-up was detected before the mother even picked up  the 
baby!)
    As mothers are watching what nurses do in the  hospital and modeling 
their own mothering on what they say, I can't believe  that closing the nursery 
door so the din of many babies wailing doesn't bother  the staff is the message 
we want to convey.
    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
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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