<I intend to write a letter - perhaps more than one! - on behalf of my
son
and his wife.>

By all means, and send copies to the administrators, OB supervisors, all
the physicians involved and both the nurseries! That's one way we gained
success back in the days of switching to family-centered care.

The local CBE association encouraged each set of new parents to send
letters to all of the above, complimenting all they could at the
beginning and the end, but in the middle, give a whammy over any
legitimate complaint they had!

<And maybe we will get that book done!>

And what better title than Jack's "How Breastfeeding is Being Sacrificed
on the Altar of Ignorance"! And as for the market, if it's put out in
paperback, I can foresee at least two communities of customers, even if
the NICU's themselves wouldn't have the guts to buy it and examine
themselves!

I guess we'uns will have to marshall OUR community of believers all over
the world to buy and distribute it to our local newsmedia, hospital
administrators, supervisors, etc. to let them know what their wonderful
NICU's have been hiding from them!

And even though risks are not always predictable, it could be formatted
(or subtitled) as "How to negotiate a plan for successful breastfeeding
for your high risk baby" for those moms who know they have been labeled
high risk. It would fit a nice niche between what is going on in so many
NICU's now and where they need to move, in the direction of BFHI.

It's sad that mothers' confidence in the medical establishment (who will
have their baby as hostage) has to be put under advance suspicion, but I
guess it is a case of "forewarned is forearmed".

It sounds like it would make a companion book to the one on formula
hazards that Marsha Walker just wrote! I guess this is one of those times
when fire has to be fought with fire!

Jean

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