Just a question : is there any advantage at all in having a newborn nursery
for healthy term babies? Any teensiest, slightest benefit whatsoever to
mother, baby or breastfeeding?

I think this is the old territorial issue - and my impression is (from the
posts)  that the more the newborn nursery is used, the more weighings,
glucose checks, observations, heel pricks for goodness-knows-what,
pacifiers, supplementary bottles.....

I said before the UK system of bedside care does *not* prevent unncessary
and harmful interventions, but on reading the posts over the last day or
so, I think we have far fewer routine interruptions to the mother-baby
relationship and bf.

What happens in places outside UK and US?

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK