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- From: clare@nynexst.com (Clare Chu)
- Subject: Re: nipple confusion and feeding newborn glucose-water???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.135125.29944@nynexst.com>
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- Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
- References: <1993Jan25.193105.19919@afit.af.mil>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 13:51:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.193105.19919@afit.af.mil> mgaudrea@afit.af.mil (Michele L.D. Gaudreault) writes:
- >>
- >A nurse who worked in the maternity ward told me it was standard
- >procedure to give newborns a bottle of water "to insure all passages are
- >all open and working". She also said it was not a good reason, since
- >breastfeeding would accomplish the same goal, and colostrum isn't any
- >worse than water. (She was on a committee to increase the rate of
- >breastfeeding among the moms delivering at the hospital.)
- >
- >She also told me that even though I had requested no bottles, Marie
- >probably (almost definitely) got one. This made sense in hindsight to
- >me since the nurse who brought Marie to me initially told me she had a
- >good suck (how would she know if she hadn't given her a bottle?), yet
- >Marie had trouble nursing at first.
-
- Hee hee, unless she tried breastfeeding Marie herself!
- >
- >I may be paranoid, but I would suggest keeping someone you trust with
- >the baby at all times.
-
- But how can you? You are not allowed in the nursery. The nurseries
- are locked up. You can only look through the window and see them
- washing your baby. We did have rooming-in, but they still take
- the baby away for washing, paper-clothes changing, and probably
- glucose water. During visiting hours, all babies are wisked back
- to the nursery for security reasons. And during one of those visiting
- hours I saw a nurse give my son a pacifier but couldn't do a thing
- about it. He loved it, and still loves his pacifier today!
- >
- >Michele
- >
- >
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