In a message dated 1/6/0 10:16:37 PM, Cathy writes:

<< ...how much is absorbed is related to how the women themselves are cared
for and treated - in other words, women whose own individual needs are
recognized and dealt with in a manner that models good mothering (to the mom
herself),.... >>

so true, and there are many ways to convey that you do care about your pt,
among those ways is, a hug, one way of mothering the mother. we have a group
of terrific female ob/gyns that hug every pt at the end of every ob or gyn
visit.

Deb

Deborah Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway

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