>because of the pitocin:
>*  possible increased jaundice
>*  possible poor sucking from increased pressure of baby's head in the
birth canal
>*  sleepiness of baby due to pitocin
>
>THEN:
>
>any complication due to IV, especially if the "induction" took a long time


Add to this the falsely high birth weight (edema), after which baby
urinates a lot the first couple of days and loses more than that "magical"
10%, leading to alarm and treating with abm, which leads to less breast
stimulation and nipple confusion.  Not to mention imprinting on new
parents' minds that they have an at-risk baby which the all-knowing doctors
"saved."

And it's a good thing that she had a hospital birth, because just look at
all of the complications--which would have been disastrous at a home birth.

"The kingdom is lost all because of a horseshoe nail."  An old rhyme about
cause and effect.

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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