Dawn writes:
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You  know, some of our nurses remember the days when babies didn't get
anything  but water in the first 24 hours. Think those babies lost
weight? I  guess.

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Ahem.  Some of us remember when babies didn't get  ANYTHING for 24 hours.  
Not even water.
 
My own daughter who is nearly 37, was born at 1:30 in  the afternoon, was 
given her first "test feed" of water at 1:30 in the morning,  and was finally 
brought to me to nurse for the first time at 5:30 in the  morning.  16 
hours.
 
Four years later in that same hospital, my second  daughter was breastfed 
in the "birthing room" (made a birthing room by posters  put on the walls 
when I came in for a stress test and decided not to leave since  she was now 3 
weeks overdue and I was really tired of being on bedrest -- for a  month -- 
for hypertension.  
 
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Wheaton IL



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