Just read your "Skin to Skin-the normal Paradigm", Jeanette.   Keep up
your good work!  I am studying for my 10 yr renewal for IBCLC and this
topic has come up again and again as I study.  I so badly want to infuse
this into our nursery and the care for our PP mothers.  I keep saying
it....it gets poo-poo'ed, or forgotten.  I am more and more solidly
convinced that the lack of holding and skin to skin nurturing, is much
of the trouble we have in our societies today.
Keep on preaching!  

Betsy Wells-Gephart, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Lactation Consultant, Charge Nurse
Chandler Regional Medical Center
480.728.3161 office
602.656.1594 pager

Jeanette wrote: 
I just gave a talk to hospital staff - encouraging THEM to become
"attachment nurses" and assume that the "default" (just like breast milk
is
the "default" infant food) is "mother/baby" as a SINGLE patient.  Just
as we
have to think long and hard before initiating a labor if mom is not near
due
date - we should ALSO be thinking long and hard before putting mother
and
baby in different rooms - or even buildings as occurs in some areas of
my
state.

Staff that has worked for many years in NICU cause us to questions
whether
it is "right" to ask policies to be changed and put babies in danger by
keeping mothers with their babies - I want to know what times it is
"right"
to have them APART!  I can't imagine a more dangerous time to be away
from
the ONLY person whose smell, taste and sounds you know than when you're
fighting for your LIFE! 

Of course treatments of many kinds must be done - but with explanations
and
assistance, mom can be the "incubator" the food market and the
tranquilizer. 

Jeanette Panchula, BA-SW, RN, PHN, IBCLC

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