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Date: | Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:22:23 -0500 |
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Because, as a doula, I attend both home and hospital births I want to
caution that "normal" is not always the equivalent of "natural." Many of my
clients achieve an unmedicated hospital birth that remains far from normal
in the sense that mom's activities are restricted, she may not be eating,
she may be cautioned not to push yet just because doctor has not
arrived..... So while these hospital births are "natural" they still are
not always normal.
It is not normal to give birth in a bed with someone counting for a
dehydrated mother who is pushing against her body's impulse, even if mom is
unmedicated.
And then there are the post-birth protocols: the baby bathing,
immunizations, eye goop... that make the early moments abnormal for the
infant... even if his mom avoided drugs. Some babies can handle these
things just fine. the more sensitive may not.
Birth related sleepiness is not always from drugs. Maybe the baby is just
"shutting down" due to too much "bright lights, big city" type action?
Susan
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