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Barbara Glare & Chris Bright <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:49:07 +1000
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Hi,

I work sometimes as a Baby Friendly Hospital Assessor.  There is a question 
about was your baby separated from you after birth?  I can't remember the 
wording.  But these days I find the questions seems stragely old fashioned 
and irrelevant.  Babies are rarely separated from their mothers, not even in 
caesarian births (and there are a lot of those)  Staff  in my hospital and 
others gasp in shock when they go to conferences and hear of places where 
babies are routinely separated from their mothers.  Which is pretty funny, 
because 6 or 7 yrs ago it would have been the norm to separate babies. 
There have been a few hiccups, like wondering whether it was "worth" doing 
skin to skin if the mother wanted to bottlefeed anyway.  I remember one of 
the arguments at the start was that mothers wouldn't want those icky little 
babies without having been washed or whatever.  You don't hear that any 
more.

Barb
IBCLC Australia 

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