Yes, but...when mothers start demanding delaying of these procedures (or
avoiding them altogether), then policy will change. At least that's what I
tell my childbirth class students. If we, as educators, don't inform them of
their true options, the demand will never be created.
Gina, IBCLC, Student Midwife
Pueblo, Colorado
www.safepassagebirth.com

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Winnie Mading <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Gina writes:
> Also, babies shouldn't be weighed at birth until well after the first feed,
> IMO. There is nothing so important about that number that it should be
> interfering with those precious first few hours together.
>
> Unfoirtunately, in the view of too many, there is one thing more important
> - getting the baby's medical record started.  And at least where I worked,
> this could not be initiated without the initial weight and record that "eyes
> and thighs" (eye ointment and Vitramin K shot) had been done.
> Once again, policy trumps what is normal rather than the other way around.
>
> Winnie Mading
>
>

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