Dear friends,

Why try to get oneself wound up in very difficult studies on randoming or controlling epidural-born infants breastfeeding vs. non-epidurals when one could also just compare the children and their vitals and behaviour following any kind of bith. No need to collect cohorts with specific characteristisks, but just all children born in a number of given facilities in a given timeframe. Breastfeeding depends on lots of factors, maternal information level and determination belonging to the important ones, birth practices adding up, as does cultural bias. Infants vitals and behaviours right after birth may not be subject to cultural believes that much (yet) but can be the result of the way baby was born. Then one could extrapolate that the healthier the child (health defining as showing normal vitals and behaviours) those on to the ability to breastfeed.
In such kind of research the norm would be the healthy, term, unmedicated born infant and other outcomes would be compared to that baseline. 

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL, dreaming in southern Netherlands to once be able to do such research.


  Met vriendelijke groet, 

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC 
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