Food for thought Da para pensar חומר למחשבה Some innovations spread fast. How do you speed the ones that don’t? “The first day she came, I felt the workload on my head was increasing.” From the second time, however, the nurse began feeling better about the visits. She even began looking forward to them. “Why?” I asked. All the nurse could think to say was “She was nice.” “She was nice?” “She smiled a lot.” “That was it?” “It wasn’t like talking to someone who was trying to find mistakes,” she said. “It was like talking to a friend.” That, I think, was the answer. Since then, the nurse had developed her own way of explaining why newborns needed to be warmed skin to skin. She said that she now tells families, “Inside the uterus, the baby is very warm. So when the baby comes out it should be kept very warm. The mother’s skin does this.” I hadn’t been sure if she was just telling me what I wanted to hear. But when I heard her explain how she’d put her own words to what she’d learned, I knew that the ideas had spread. “Do the families listen?” I asked. “Sometimes they don’t,” she said. “Usually, they do.” ♦
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:17:08 +0000
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