"Other hospitals in Texas are taking similar steps to become more baby-friendly, including closing nurseries and phasing out pacifiers, according to North Texas' CBSDFW.
Pacifiers "interfere in the beginning with breastfeeding sometimes," Theresa Patton, M.D., of the 515-bed Methodist Dallas Medical Center told CBSDFW. "Pacifiers are gone from general use. They are used for painful procedures, so if an infant has a circumcision or something like that we use pacifiers periodically for that reason." Methodist also emphasizes skin-to-skin contact and requires rooming-in."
fiercehealthcare.com/story/ind…-baby-friendly/2013-08-26
"Man muss diese versteinerten Verhältnisse dadurch zum Tanzen zwingen, dass man ihnen ihre eigne Melodie vorsingt!" K.M.