Looking for policy/protocol for breastfeeding in NICU when both mom and baby are colonized with MRSA. This is not a problem in well baby as we have private rooms, however, in our special care nursery moms are only separated by a thin screen. The question has been asked as to whether this is "safe" for the other moms and babies in the nursery to breast feed in our open nursery when the only separation being a thin screen for these kids. Now when mom holds her baby, she must gown and glove and, of course, baby is in isolation in isolette until discharge. I want to change this if possible to all moms in our SCN will be allowed to breastfeed in our unit. The biggest problem I see right now is that these moms are not allowed to give their baby practice time at the breast so breastfeeding is really delayed. Along with the fact that skin to skin is discouraged since mom must be in a isolation gown when she visits. ARNETTA DAILEY RN IBCLC *********************************************** 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