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Date: | Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:41:59 -0500 |
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Dear Friends:
When a NICU works well, it is awesome.
However, a NICU completely supportive of breastfeeding is rare in my area.
Mothers that have called me in for a consultation for breastfeeding
rehabilitation have reported feeling that they were held hostage, that they
went along with bottle-feeding as the quickest way to get their baby out of
the NICU.
I've had nurses in a NICU tell me that skin to skin care wasn't good for
premature infants!
A neonatologist, head of a NICU, told me that breastfeeding was insufficient
nutrition for infants.
There is a NICU in our Citythat encourages skin to skin care, and
breastfeeding. Most NICUs are happy to bottle-feed human milk, and are
useless for breastfeeding support.
This is the next big frontier in breastfeeding support. I wish everyone
would read Drs. Beverly Chalmers and Adik Levin's bookd "Humane Perinatal
Care."
warmly,
Nikki Lee
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