Dear Friends:
    The post escaped before I was finished.
    Jacobsen, Salk, Hattori, and a host of others have  examined
relationships between events. There are connections between drugs used  in labor and
methods of suicide, drugs used in labor and drug used in
addiction...............connections between schizophrenia and cesarean  section.
    There is no study that says X causes Y. Can't do  that, because people
are so complicated and our lives are spent juggling  variables.
    However, a new concept is that a combination  of susceptibilities create
a garden for disease to grow in. Think onion. There  can be a spot in one
layer of an onion; you can cut it out and use the onion for  cooking. Even two
spots can be removed to salvage the onion. But when the spots  on the different
layers line up and make a big nasty mushy spot, it's time to  toss the onion in
the compost.
    So with disease. Take a mother who smokes in  pregnancy, whose family
background includes a genetic predisposition towards  some disease, has an
induced labor and operative delivery, and who chooses not  to breastfeed. That baby
has already a collection of risk factors that might not  tolerate its family
living in a place (like Texas) where the air quality in some  cities is the
worst in the country.
    No one thing made the baby sick; it was a  combination.
    Spontaneous undisturbed birth in a loving  environment to a
well-nourished woman won't make a perfect baby; but it  certainly is a combination of
health boosts!
    warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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