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I have posted about this before. I made crib cards pink and blue where the
mom checks the box she feels appropriate. No pacifiers, breast only, bottle,
etc you get the point. At the bottom of the crib card after i list the hunger
cues, I state, I am learning to breastfeed, and pacifiers can slow down my
progress. This is sometimes more for the staff than the parents. ""( We do
have pacifiers on the unit. If a box is checked NO pacifiers and staff are
giving the baby one, this is treated like someone doing a procedure on the
baby without permission, and they get written up. Most moms don't even
have them in the cribs. When we do a painful procedure like circ's then we
use them with sugar water for comfort. Or starting an IV.. Occassionally for
babies under phototherapy that just won't settle no matter what we do. But
they are not routinely given out. When I worked L&D many years ago at a
hospital like the one you describe, they were always in the bassinetts. Maybe
we have started to come a long way. One can hope...
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