tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post8775274762648850856..comments2024-03-05T11:36:50.299-05:00Comments on Stand and Deliver: News and updatesRixahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908864785513937876noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-62498233690783203822011-10-17T13:35:39.724-04:002011-10-17T13:35:39.724-04:00Alot of people are up in arms about the artist giv...Alot of people are up in arms about the artist giving birth in a gallery as an art piece.<br /><br />Honestly, as an artist and a natural birth momma I think they have alot in common. Art is there to make you think, change your view points, and in many cases reveal something deep and meaningful to the artist. I think that birth does all those things as well.<br /><br />We cannot say that we support choice in birth and then make another mothers choice seem stupid or wrong. Each to their own.Samanthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18344327169147258984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-74398736231797652822011-10-17T11:07:00.681-04:002011-10-17T11:07:00.681-04:00A great news indeed. Moms will love to hear this t...A great news indeed. Moms will love to hear this type of method.arizona gynecologisthttp://www.momdoc.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-52860679092407908092011-10-15T18:25:40.927-04:002011-10-15T18:25:40.927-04:00The very natural birth I had in the USA involved b...The very natural birth I had in the USA involved being bombarded with free samples the minute I pre-registered at the hospital and it only stopped because I left to Australia! My emergency caesarean in Australia was skin-to-skin right from delivery, through recovery and into post-natal. That child didn't get taken off me until I got up to go to the bathroom 24 hours later. He didn't get a bath until 10 days later and he was weighed just once in the hospital.<br />It is like chalk and cheese. See, BFHI requires a complete mindset change. It is not just about not offering formula. The most important steps in BFHI are the early steps, like promoting skin to skin for lengthy periods post natal, evidence based birth practices, not separating babies from their mothers etc etc. If all that is done, that fact that there is free formula in the hospital is almost immaterial. Most people just don't need it. Some will still want it, but that is another story.<br />The comment about wanting to send the baby to the nursery for two hours? Well, most of the BFHI hospitals no longer have well baby nurseries. There is just the fact that babies stay with their mothers. The occasional one might get wheeled to the nurses’ station, but babies stay with their mums. If your baby requires moderate medical care (like phototherapy or temparature control), it is all done at mum's bedside. Works very well, reduces stress in mothers which SURPRISE SURPRISE, doesn't inhibit the letdown reflex.<br />Formula is available for medical reasons. If you need it, you get it. You do have to sign a consent form but it would be unethical not to. Formula introduces risk. The mother and the doctor have to weigh that risk against the risk of not using formula. If your decision is that the benefit of using formula outweights the risk, then that is all you are signing to say. <br />If you don't need it, you get all the help you need with BF (like teaching on expressing, increasing your supply, normal newborn behaviour) and if you still want to feed formula, it is against medical advice and you bring your own and your own bottles too. Oh, and you sign to say that it is against medical advice. The midwives will supervise you and teach you how to make up the formula and clean and sterilise (because bottle feeding does have a higher risk of introduced bacterial and viral illness, even bottle feeding with EBM), but mothers feed their babies. Not midwives.<br />And then we come onto the big one - formula marketing. Artificial baby milks can not be advertised or marketed in Australia unless at point of sale (that is the milks aimed at babies 12 months and under). That means that no cans of forumala get couriered to the front door, no formula samples in magazines, none of those 'breastfeeding bags' in the hospital, no advertising on TV and in magazine and no free supplies to hospitals. People in Australia who get government support (I think you call it WIC in the USA), buy their own food, and so there is no free or discounted formula for them. <br />I love the BFHI and I really want it to work in the USA. But, until the rampant marketing of breast milk substitutes ceases, then I think it is fighting an uphill battle. When coupled with the absolute dark ages birthing culture that still exists in most parts of the USA and for the majority of US women, then I think BFHI will really struggle. Oh that I wish it were otherwise!Rosemarynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20642800.post-18529166578923548882011-10-15T08:00:23.680-04:002011-10-15T08:00:23.680-04:00I would be curious to hear if there has been any p...I would be curious to hear if there has been any patient satisfaction studies on the baby friendly hospitals. We have one in our city, not the one I delivered at and I have heard many complaints from women who felt guilted and shamed if they wanted to consider supplementing or wanted to ask their nurse if the baby could spend 2 hours in the nurses station between feedings so they could sleep. I'm definitely a proponent of breastfeeding (I exclusively breastfed my dd) but I'm not a proponent of shaming that can go on in those hospitals. I would hope that a more balanced approached that encourages and supports and lifts up new moms would be integrated rather than a simple - we don't do bottles approach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com