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Keeping babies with moms is the standard
Posted On 05/24/2008 08:47:02 by DebbyS
I attended an interesting birth recently as a doula. The hospital worked very hard to be family-friendly and to allow mom informed consent/refusal and I was thankful for that. About 30 minutes after birth, they wanted to take the baby, weigh him, measure, etc. Baby hadn't begun breastfeeding yet, and I told them that the parents wanted to use AAP's current guidelines on that and keep the baby with them. "What?" "You know. The American Academy of Pediatrics' *current* guidelines... The one that s... Read More