Dear Friends:
     "Starving" babies.....remember that the breast is a source of food,
drink, love, medicine, entertainment, analgesia, and comfort. A newly born
baby needs safety in a new world, maybe some analgesia, some food and drink,
and some medicine (immunoglobulins).
     All a baby can do is ask for the breast. We who are watching interpret
that asking as an assumption that the baby is hungry. Shouldn't we be
educating new mothers that the breast is the source of all goodness for a
baby?
     Isn't it some artifact of three generations of bottle feeding to assume
that "the baby is hungry again" because all the bottle gives is food? Doesn't
the idea of spacing out feeds come in part from 3 generations of hospital
births and the notion of 2 feeds per shift? Mothers are imprinting on what
they see as well.
     I really wonder how many of the bizarre infant rearing practices I see
in the USA are the result of that 3 generations of imprinting. Look at the
proliferation of plastic buckets for carrying and transporting babies. Look
at how mothers want their babies to feed at longer and longer intervals. Look
at how much pacifiers are used. Look at the distance between mother and baby,
which is started in most hospitals when baby is taken away to the nursery
after birth.
     Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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