>> However, the is a big SIDS
prevention push at the hospital where I work, and one of the big no, nos is
cosleeping.
>>I do know however, that there are also
midwives that if they find a mother and baby asleep in bed together, will
remove the baby from the bed!
Had I not had a similar
experience I would not have believed such a statement!
I had my last baby in February
of this year. Because I also had a toddler I decided to transfer to the
hospitals post natal ward for some "rest"(ha ha ha). The night shift midwife
and I had a severe disagreement at 1am because *gasp* I had my baby in bed
with me. Her exact words to me were " you will roll over and kill her!"
and "didn't read hospital guidelines? We don't recommend it here - it's very
dangerous blah blah blah" My very nice (compared to her hostility)reply
was "Well my first child is still alive and there are lots of studies into the
benefits of co sleeping. Besides that she's hungry and she's feeding every 20
minutes and I am too tired to be sitting up and feed her like that
all night. This is much easier for both of us.Thankyou for pointing the
hospital guidelines out - I understand and I choose not to follow them" She
then proceeded to try and convince me to let her take the baby away "if I was
that bothered by her" ?!??!?!
Lots of other things happened
during the course of the night which I won't go into but needless to say I left first thing in the
morning after my "rest".
>>We have been asked to get parents to sign a form
stating that they have received the information on safe sleeping, including
the information that cosleeping is not recommended.
Are the hospitals panicking
about liability?? This I can understand but still.......it doesn't seem
right.
Don't know if my story is really
relevant but it was something that had bothered me for a long time. I dread to
think how a first time mother would feel after being spoken to like that. I
guess I am still naive sometimes in thinking that the rest of the world is as
open minded as I am LOL.
Hugs, Larissa
