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Dear Friends:
I get so angry and sad at scenes such as this recent one, that I witnessed
as part of my work as lactation consultant in a hospital.
The still-wet newborn is wailing and calling for his mother while he bakes
under the warming lights in the nursery. The nurse is standing at the door of
the nursery, using her serious voice, telling the dad that the baby's blood
sugar is low and that she will be giving formula, using a slow flow nipple that
is most like mother's nipple. The mother is in her room down the hall,
wanting her baby, with milk in her breasts.
This makes me crazy. I am helpless. I can't barge in to the dialogue between
nurse and dad, because it will set up a confrontation, because the doctor
said the baby had to be in the warmer for X length of time (usually until the
temperature and blood sugar come up).
sigh.
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
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