Eva said: 
Yes, it's such a shame, especially when you work in a BFHI hospital and you are dealing with nurses as well as paeds who have such differing opinions [mostly against co-sleeping, with apparent latest evidence], when Mum and babe would really benefit.

...you add to this the fears of lawsuits that engulf most medical providers in the US, and we see parents getting instructions that the providers don't even believe or practice - but rather what they feel will keep them safe from litigation!

...as long as they say what the AAP says, they feel they are safe, and their employers will not "throw them to the wolves".  

At the same time, we need to remember that in most US hospital rooms we do NOT have a non-medicated, easily alerted mother.  Beds are very high, narrow and on hard floors.    Falls are the biggest concern, rather than roll overs - although both have been documented.

I loved the pictures in the last GOLD Conference???) of the hospital rooms I believe in Sweden - wide beds low to the ground.  Our hospital beds are the same as post-surgical beds - and with the high percent of cesarean births, I don't see that changing in the near future! 

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
California, USA

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