Thought some might be interested in these reports. Good to see wet nursing happening (but only because formula was not available) but oh, my goodness, how many flamin' different orgs are improvising over baby warmers when the under baby warmer (ie mother) is available. I'venever seen reports like this before.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


http://www.recordernewspapers.com/articles/2010/02/17/madison_eagle/latest_news/doc4b7c3f7002c5d783109148.txt
Improvising On Spot 

   "Treatments also took a tremendous amount of creativity on occasion, but demonstrated the true art of nursing at its finest," she said. "We found wet nurses to breastfeed malnourished, orphaned infants because formula wasn't available. Pedialyte (a hydration formula to quickly replace lost fluids) and saline irrigation solutions were made from scratch in bottled water. Newborn incubators were built out of reflective heater blankets and food heater bags from the MREs. Baby bottles were created out of bottled water containers and vinyl gloves.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/AR2010021604548.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
The Bataan crew is particularly proud of the Haitian baby they helped deliver aboard. Lacking a proper incubator, they improvised -- using a heat lamp normally employed to cure fiberglass. 

http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1827914.html
Delivering babies required some improvising, he said. An Army "meals ready to eat" box, lined with tin foil, served as an incubator, he said.

 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/haiti/story/1488238-p2.html
Still, doctors say even the hospitals and clinics are far from ideal for delivering babies. At the University of Miami field hospital near the Port-au-Prnce airport, doctors didn't have access to a baby incubator. They were able to deliver one preemie by emergency Cesarean section. But when the baby's temperature dropped -- a potentially life-threatening condition -- there was no way to warm her.Thinking quickly, the doctors used ready-to-eat meals to raise the child's body temperature. She was later transferred to a hospital in Haiti with an available incubator

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