Dear Friends: The suffragettes wanted anesthesia in childbirth at the turn of the century, to be free of the pain of birth. And the Queen of England used chloroform for her last baby. Add to that the power given to the young AMA by the rich industrialists. Also add the political clout to said young AMA, who went out and deliberately discredited every other branch of healing practice and that can help explain some of what we have today. There was no advocate for babies in those days. And who is their advocate now? I fear that there will have to be an epidemic of damaged babies that is recognized by the mainstream public before we have change. Breastfeeding advocates have to have active, awake babies and committed moms to work with. When birth makes the babies unable to participate, and the mothers are separated in the first stages of detachment parenting, we have an uphill battle. Trying to keep this topic about breastfeeding! :-) Warmlay, Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE craniosacral therapy practitioner Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA) supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html