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I'm interested in hearing more about "the filter of fear" -- I don't
understand what you're trying to say, but it sounds like it's probably
interesting. (I blame it on the #$*^@ fireworks that kept me up way too
late!)
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Dear Friends:
Health care professionals see horrific and scary things
sometimes. This fear doesn't get processed or cleared, but instead is
carried along to the next situations. This fear changes behavior and creates
suspicion and doubt. Doctors say a normal birth can only be deemed so once it is
over; birth is viewed as a disaster waiting to happen by most physicians.
That is how they are trained.
What chance does a mother in US hospitals today have to learn about
taking care of her baby in a positive way when she isn't allowed to walk in the
halls carrying her baby in arms for fear she will slip and fall? Mothers
have to push their babies in aquariums on wheels to minimize risk. This is
another way an atmospher of fear is created.
What is peverse about this fear-based philosophy is that all of the
interventions that are done at birth to make it "safe" actually increase the risk.
So now women are afraid of "birth", but no one is told that it is the
routine, thoughtless use of technology that increases danger.
Fear takes the word "protection" and substitutes "reduced risk".
Nothing is without risk; and a frightened person will keep the notion of
possible terrible future events in mind at all times. As a result, even a
spontaneous, undisturbed labor and birth is labeled "low-risk".
In teaching, I've learned to use phrases that put pictures in people's
minds. What sort of image comes to mind with the phrase "low risk"? I can
imagine 'protection', like a shield or a seat belt. But I cannot make a mental
image of 'low risk'.
Protection never meant guarantee.
And a woman birthing with these attitudes of fear and doubt in her
environment has a difficult time breastfeeding.
Just some musings..........
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
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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