Dear Sandra, our hospital (which is not baby friendly, although I have worked in a facility that is) has this as policy: "all mothers who plan to breastfeed will be assisted to do so within 30-60 m inutes ofdelivery unless maternal or infant complications prevent it." If you need journal citations, check out WHO's excellent book, The Ten Steps: the Rationale and Evidence (title?). It addresses each of the Ten Steps in detail, and references NUMEROUS articles and studies to back them up. Keeping breastfed babies NPO is a huge barrier to breastfeeding success, as I am sure you know, and is completely unfounded in any research. You can order the book from Baby Friendly USA, (508) 888-8044. I think ILCA sells it, too. It is about $20 US. Martha Johnson RN IBCLC Eugene Oregon -----Original Message----- From: Sandra McMillan [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:50 AM Subject: Hospital newborn standing orders The newborn standing orders at my hospital are currently being revised. (Our "current" nutrition orders still call for NPO x 3-4 hours, then sugar water, etc.) If any hospital-based Lactnetters (especially any Baby-Friendly ones) would be willing to share standing orders that are used at your hospital, I would appreciate being contacted privately. Sandra McMillan, RD Saint Eugene Medical Center Dillon SC USA [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html