Dear Friends:
At a local LC hospital group meeting, a member reported that recently the
census was 42 mothers on the postpartum unit; 33 of them had had cesarean
sections. That's about a 75% cesarean section rate.

I am hearing more and more of new mothers that don't want their babies after
birth. To me, that is a symptom of a completely disrupted birth, a total
disregard for any neurobiologic pathways, and completely sick.

When birth is spontaneous and undisturbed and unmedicated, the new mother is
most often  at least intensely curious about her baby.  If mothers can't
fall in love with their babies in the hospital, breastfeeding is more
difficult to initiate and sustain. If she doesn't fall in love with her
baby, it is more difficult for her heart and brain to engage with her baby
because her brain will have all the work to make commitment.

I had predicted that the national cesarean section rate would be 50% in 5
years....I had thought that would be a limit. Now I see that there is no
limit, that humans are infinitely nuts about birth and that a 100% cesarean
section rate is possible.

Stunned in Pennsylvania, USA.

Nikki Lee

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