I do know those psychic predictions well! Along with our efforts to become a 
baby-friendly facility, we have started to do a lot of community bf support. 
One thing is every few months I will speak to expectant moms at my local 
BRU.  Often new moms will come back and tell me about their birth/bf 
experience.  I can usually in my head guess with amazing accuracy which 
hospital mom gave birth in before she says it, just by the things she tells me 
about her experiences.  It is just so amazing that hospitals are still doing 
things certain ways.  I know a mom who recently was kept from her baby for 
24 hours because she had a temp of 100.5 x1 during her pushing.  Baby went 
to NICU for a work up too.  I'd like to ask that hospital what evidence 
supports the need for a policy like that, and if they found it in a museum.   
Sometimes I am shocked in a good way, recently a mom who gave birth in a 
hospital with a very high C/S rate and very low bf rate told me she had a drug 
free NSVD, and was exclusively bf.  I felt like I had seen the Loch Ness 
Monster! She was truly a rare find from this hospital.  It is sad that where you 
deliver can truly influence how you birth as well as how successful you are 
with bf.  Its too bad we can not have standard up to date, evidence based bf 
policies that all hospitals follow.


-Heather LaRosa RN, IBCLC

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