Dearest Friends:

This is totally the right idea. Any zookeeper knows that when the laboring
mamma is disturbed, awful things happen. The labor stalls. The mother kills
the baby. The baby dies.

What would mammals do?  (exactly right, Diane)

And why aren't we doing it?

How many of us have had farmers in our audiences that always pipe up "we
always use colostrum because the baby dies without it" and "we always leave
the laboring mother alone."  I am sorry now to realized that I haven't given
enough time to these truths nor honor to these sages,  but merely nodded,
"yes" and kept on. I learned something today, thanks Rachel.

And why aren't we doing it??

warmly,
Nikki Lee

> I don't think it is just a funny coincidence that no one laid a finger on
> us, and I never got sore. I was also very lucky, my children weren't tongue
> tied or unable to move, root, gape and latch.  But it does baffle me that
> women where I now practice seem to have no intuitive feeling of how to bring
> their babies to breast, when they actually see breastfeeding all over the
> place, were breastfed themselves, and have gotten ostensibly good info all
> along. Makes me really wonder why on earth the care we offer to women
> involves putting them in institutions without their significant others at
> this juncture in their lives.
> Rachel Myr
> Kristiansand, Norway
>
>             ***********************************************
>

             ***********************************************

Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html
To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]
Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask]
COMMANDS:
1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail
2. To start it again: set lactnet mail
3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet
4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome