Hi Everyone, There is discussion in our hospital on how to facilitate keeping mothers and babies together after a c-section. I am hoping that all of you who work in hospitals that do this will respond. I'd like to know how it is done and ways staffing requirements are met in the recovery room. Currently, babies go to the nursery for care while the mother goes to recovery. We have tried getting the nurses to bring the baby back to recovery within the first hour for breastfeeding, but have been minimally successful. Our L&D manager reports the barriers to be: one on one staffing requirement for recovery room. "High" potential for bleeding in the first 15 minutes in recovery. She feels mom's nurse can't deal with baby too if mother is bleeding heavily. If nursery RN stays in recovery with the baby, this can create a problem in the nursery with less staff to watch any other babies who may be there. Personally, I think mother-baby nursing would resolve these issues, but I'm told "baby steps." So, we continue to try and give better care within our old framework. I think it would be easier to make the big change than to try and solve problems we create by not keeping mothers and babies together in the first place. Thanks, in advance, for your help. Billie Frye *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html