We changed to what Celeste Phillips (AWHONN literature) calls "mother-baby care" for postpartum, and I much prefer that wording to "rooming in". Mother-baby care implies - and has become in fact, here! - that the nurse nurtures and "nurses" both mother and baby. We do good assessments on babies and help mothers blossom into themselves as moms. That may mean occasional "grandma service" while mom is in the shower (or while they go out for a cigarette - but that's a topic for another day!). But under the best of circumstances it also means helping mom learn early feeding cues, helping her hold the baby a lot, good help with feeds (no matter what kind they are), and truly learning what this mom needs to be able to go home whole.
 
And I guess for me the Rolls Royce of hospitals would have a fireplace and mother-baby care both...(oh no, here I am going home again!).
 
Dawn M. Kersula MA, RN, IBCLC
The Birthing Center at BMH
17 Belmont Avenue
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802-257-8278
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