In flight

My sister is coming home for a holiday so I'll write here usually I email her and thats satisfied my urge to write. Today I have finished my working week, only 2 days lucky me. Sort of, lots of people have given up work by my age or have less physically demanding jobs. I must say I have very nice mothers to look after the last two days and a girl with very badly inverted nipples who was determined to breast feed. She said it made her mad that she had such a difficult time where her friends had no problems breast feeding but couldn't be bothered. Oh well I said you will probably be much more committed and value it than them. She did well in the end with a nipple shield.
I had a vigorous argument in report with everyone about the way breast feeding is being handled on the ward. Everyone seems very anxious about the mothers getting their milk in which is rubbish, only a few mothers fail to lactate. They have the girls on the breast pump from day 0  sometimes instead of getting the baby on the breast, madness. It sparked off with one of the girls report that she couldn't get the baby on the breast and she was worried about that. I said how old is this baby 2 hours she said. They dont understand that their anxiety is transferring to the mothers and making them anxious, as if they havent enough of that already. I think patience is the most import virtue of mothering sometimes but we live in a madhouse that wants us to run before we walk, its so sad. It sets people up to be failures before they begin.
The next shift a girl rang me almost in tears as someone had told her not to let the baby sleep longer than 5 hours so she woke him up to feed him and he wouldnt feed, so we tried for a little while but he was sleepy. He was a boofy boy and she had a C/S without a labour so he wouldnt have been particularly hungry when he was born he had had quiet a few good feeds so we decided to let him sleep and wait to he woke for a feed which he did in an hour and had a good suck, ah patience again.
I have my own issues too with 19 yr old who has dropped lovely boyfriend and is goodness knows where at the moment ?new boyfriend.  We are upset for her ex and missing him and she has gone to ground but by the 3rd I should be use to these things.
It is a peaceful sunday and I should be hanging out more washing.