Barb - how I WISH those conditions prevailed in my part of the USA and
I'll bet lots of others do too!
Mothers here have to fight to keep their babies from being taken away
to be bathed, poked and prodded after a nominal *bonding time.*
What did you do to get to where you are now?

norma, in waaay upstate NY,. USA

>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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