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MAMA-KANGAROO 487
I gave birth in year 2007 on the Maternity Ward in Sombor. I maintained the pregnancy since the eighth week and the baby was breech, so there was no question whether I was going to have a C-section. I was extremely satisfied with the doctors in the hospital and I had no problems with my wound. The nurses, however, are a different story. When it comes to the Baby friendly programme, I support it completely, because it is the most natural thing to have the baby next to its mother from the moment it is born, but in some civilized, cultured countries, not in countries such as this one. The Baby friendly programme in our hospitals is, in my opinion, the worst torture a young mother and her baby can endure, especially for the mother who has had a C-section. The help I got from the nurses was minimal, or none whatsoever, and when I asked for help, the pediatric nurse replied with a question “God, what kind of a mother are you?” My biggest problem during the six days I spent in hospital was that I got NO HELP WITH BREASTFEEDING. It makes me sick to see all those posters at doctors’ offices and all the media hype to promote breastfeeding, but when it comes to the place where the breastfeeding is really supposed to be promoted, the women are on their own. Nobody helped me position the baby, nor did they explain anything about all of this, they just told me I should massage my breasts and express them. I came home with a formed lump under my nipple, I struggled with it for two weeks and in the end I couldn’t breastfeed my child, even though I was eager to do so. After that I got mastitis which was treated twice – if it had returned for the third time I would have needed surgery. When I asked the doctor who treated me why I got mastitis twice, she literally said that it was because of the negligence on the Maternity Ward and that there was no reason for me not to be able to breastfeed my baby, but that there should have been someone to teach me how to do it and to help me! I would like to point out that this doctor is a specialist for radiology, especially for breasts. Well, next time the Ministry of Health or anybody else decides to print posters about breastfeeding, I recommend they print this text, and not give it to the pregnant women to read, but to post it on Maternity Wards in the staff rooms.
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