In a message dated 8/12/01 9:23:15 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< The acceptable reasons for supplementation in the BFHI are quite stringent. (The most acceptable alternative to a mother's own milk is milk from another woman.) Many hospitals have become accredited as 'baby friendly' in the past decade, but that doesn't mean the culture of interference has been changed. >> Hi Joy and all, sooo true Joy!! Earlier this year a personal friend gave birth to her second child. A beautiful physiological birth, babe and woman well. This woman was committed to BF her babe (BF babe No 1 well into his second year) and BF was established immediately at birth and was moving along well with the Woman home 24 hours after birth. Day 3 babe was readmitted to special care nursery for phototherapy for severe jaundice. Woman was expressing milk and running backwards and forwards every couple of hours to feed her babe (day and night). She phoned me distraught one day during this time saying her babe had been given formula WITHOUT her consent !!!!!! The nursery staff had run out of EBM and she wasn't due back for an hour. Staff gave the babe formula WITHOUT her consent, insisting that they considered her rest more important and didn't wish to disturb her Re: EBM or returning earlier to feed the babe. This woman lived 2 minutes drive from the hospital !!! I was astonished to think that this could and would happen in a 'baby friendly' accredited institution - I urged her to contact the Unit Manager for an explanation first and foremost to discuss the situation and what would be done to ensure it didn't happen again to her or anyone else !! I also urged her to contact ACMI, ABA, ALCA to share her experience and for further information of avenues to lodge her complaint Re: The 'baby friendly' stuff. I followed her up on this only recently to find that she was given a good hearing by the 'MUM' who also shared her distress that this occurred. The woman took no further action on this (despite my urging she contact the ACMI Re: 'baby friendly' breech.) In such instances, any advice on who is the most appropriate 'authority' to report such a breech of 'baby friendly' policy ?? Yours in birth, Tina Pettigrew Birthworks Independent CBE and aspiring B.Mid Midwife. Convenor, Aust B. Mid Student Collective. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BMidStudentCollective [EMAIL PROTECTED] " As we trust the flowers to open to new life - So we can trust birth" Harriette Hartigan. ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
