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Many of you Dayton mamas know Mrs Scott, the lactation consultant at the Base Hospital. Like her or not, she serves a very useful purpose for the base. Many of us have horror stories from the L&D nurses and pediatricians at the base. Mrs Scott up to this point has helped somewhat in providing at least some help to the many many mamas at the base.
I've been volunteering with her every month helping teach the breastfeeding class. She told me tonight that this month's class is the LAST ONE the base will be offering, as her position has been converted to a pediatric flight asset. She will no longer be able (or even allowed) to provide lactation support to any moms at the base hospital.
There is no plan to replace her (in fact they cancelled her position entirely)
Obviously this is a problem on so many levels. Yet again the base is moving farther and farther away from the recommendations of every organization out there (AAP, AAFP, WHO, ACOG, etc)
Oh...and the new flight commander there has also decided that there are too many pumps and they are going to be returning them to DRMO (which, for those of you not familiar with military lingo...it basically means they will be thrown away). I asked her if the pumps could at the very least be donated to WIC or LLL or the local hospitals, but the military requires that all equipment be tracked, and items like that (high value) can not be just given away.
THere has to be something we can do. Letter writing, heck, even a nurse-in outside someone's office door. Not in support of Mrs Scott personally (although she is a very nice woman) but in support of breastfeeding and in protest of the base deciding breastfeeding is not worth their time or energy.
Anyone in???
Many of you Dayton mamas know Mrs Scott, the lactation consultant at the Base Hospital. Like her or not, she serves a very useful purpose for the base. Many of us have horror stories from the L&D nurses and pediatricians at the base. Mrs Scott up to this point has helped somewhat in providing at least some help to the many many mamas at the base.
I've been volunteering with her every month helping teach the breastfeeding class. She told me tonight that this month's class is the LAST ONE the base will be offering, as her position has been converted to a pediatric flight asset. She will no longer be able (or even allowed) to provide lactation support to any moms at the base hospital.
There is no plan to replace her (in fact they cancelled her position entirely)
Obviously this is a problem on so many levels. Yet again the base is moving farther and farther away from the recommendations of every organization out there (AAP, AAFP, WHO, ACOG, etc)
Oh...and the new flight commander there has also decided that there are too many pumps and they are going to be returning them to DRMO (which, for those of you not familiar with military lingo...it basically means they will be thrown away). I asked her if the pumps could at the very least be donated to WIC or LLL or the local hospitals, but the military requires that all equipment be tracked, and items like that (high value) can not be just given away.
THere has to be something we can do. Letter writing, heck, even a nurse-in outside someone's office door. Not in support of Mrs Scott personally (although she is a very nice woman) but in support of breastfeeding and in protest of the base deciding breastfeeding is not worth their time or energy.
Anyone in???
