I know Barb..it does seem abit draconian.

Thank you so much for putting me in touch with Ellyce KMN......We had to go in for routine CTG monitoring today and I went up to the ward and she happened to be there..we had a great chat. She reckons five mls yesterday was awesome and to keep it up and gave my some specimen jars to better store it rather than in the syringes. Apparently the SCN policy is a fairly recent one and came about after a baby that shouldn't have been let out to the room was and bad things happened....her belief is that it will be reviewed in time as people like me kick up a fuss as she also agrees that it does seem a bit OTT to have such a blanket policy so she has given me the business card for the unit manager to ring tomorrow to "have a chat" to....and believe me I will be having a chat!!!
She did also say that if Connor is still in SCN later in the day of delivery they will get me up a wheel me down to him if possible......so I have a few avenues of investigation to follow up on. So we are aiming to get about 80-100 mls of colostrum stored between now and delivery day which would mean even I wasnt able to feed him myself there would be zero need for formula...so at least I have a plan now.....best case scenario we never need to use it but it will be there just in case!

Oh and to answer whoever said make sure I have a room near SCN...they are all near the SCN in Jesse Mac...the SCN and nurses station are kinda in the centre with the rooms in a square formation around it if that makes sense, so I know he will not be far away!