I'll bet if you did a careful study of hospital vs. non-hospital, medicated
vs. non-medicated, etc., you would find that most of it is due to
medications and stress of being in the hospital.  In most "traditional"
cultures around the world, where mom is not medicated during labor/delivery,
and where she gives birth in a safe, secure place surrounded by people she
has known all her life, loves, and trusts, that you don't find this
fogginess.  In most places, mom is back at work -- meaning hauling water,
chopping firewood, growing crops, milking animals, whatever -- by several
days postpartum.  And of course, in these circumstances, even first-time
moms know all about breastfeeding because they grew up surrounded by it.

Kathy Dettwyler

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