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When a child is ill in hospital, a parents first reaction is to be___ 1 ___them. Most hospitals now allow parents to sleep___ 2___with their child，providing a bed or sofa on the ward. But until the 1970s this ___3 ___was not only frowned upon it was actively discouraged. Staff worried that the children were upset when their parents ___4___ , and so there was a blanket ban. A concerned nurse, Pamela Hawthorn, disagreed and her study Nurse! want my mummy, published in 1974,___ 5___the face of paediatric nursing. Professor Martin Johnson, professor of nursing at the University of Salford, said that the work of ___6___ like Pamela had changed the face of patient care. Pamelas study was done against the ___7___ of a lively debate in paediatrics and psychology as to the degree women should spend with children in the outside world and the degree to which they should be allowed to visit children in___ 8___ . The idea was that if mum came to ___9___a small child in hospital the child would be upset and inconsolable for hours. Yet the nurse noticed that if mum did not come at___10___the child stayed in a relatively stable state but they might be depressed. Of course we know now that they had almost, given ___11___ hope that mum was ever coming back. | 
