Dear Friends:
    This is an interesting topic, with many  answers.
    Women are often assaulted in technologically driven  birth, and 
physically injured and/or energetically battered . Once the baby is  born, the woman is 
shocked into silence or resistance, as coping strategies to  survive an 
overwhelming situation. 
    I also wonder about the emotional impact of  pitocin. Hormones create 
feelings and feelings motivate behavior. As pitocin is  now given to virtually 
everyone that I see, whether as a LC in private practice  or as a RN for an 
agency, I wonder if the abuse of the synthetic hormone is  creating another 
susceptibility for women to keep some distance for their  babies.
    How many facilities keep the mother and baby  undisturbed, skin-to-skin, 
until the first breastfeed (as recommended by Righard  and Alade)? Many 
facilities have mother and baby stay together, but they are not  left alone. Staff 
have jobs to do, the dyad is frequently interrupted and there  is pressure to 
'do breastfeeding correctly' from the very first  attachment.
    Perhaps mothers whose prenatal intention is to  breastfeed and who change 
after delivery is an artifact of the birthing  practices in institutions?
    warmly,
    
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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