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>Yes. This is what I learn from the study at Evergreen Hospital (at least at
>it was reported on this list -- I confess to not having read the underlying
>report) about comparing epidural rates to bf rates there. They had lots of
>epidurals but great bf rates. Lots of us were incredulous about this, but
>from what I heard their numbers were pretty clear.
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>I understand this to indicate that the connection so many of us see between
>birth interventions and bf trouble is mostly correlative, rather than
>causative. Disempower birthing mothers and model the unnaturalness of
>women's bodies, and you will tend to get both lots of birth interventions and
>also lousy bf rates.
I don't think this indicates non-causation at all. I think it indicates
that birth interventions do affect breastfeeding negatively, but that their
impact isn't enough on its own to sabotage breastfeeding -- to do that you
need lots of other anti-breastfeeding things going on as well. See my
blocks and strings analogy in the archives.
Kathy Dettwyler
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