I wanted to answer Deanne's post about what did my comments on hearing
tests have to do with breastfeeding.  While a hearing test may seem like
a simple procedure(done for a very good reason), it may very well effect
breastfeeding.  It may not be the test itself but the cumulative effect
of the many tests and procedures done to that infant.  There is a study
done by Dr. Righard in The Lancet(1990, Vol. 336, 1105-07) that suggests
to me that sometimes a very simple, common procedure done to newborns at
birth can effect that baby's ability to breastfeed.  Babies at birth
were taken away from their mothers to be bathed and measured and then
brought back to their mothers to breastfeed.  In comparison to the group
of babies that never left their mothers, they had more difficulties
breastfeeding.  Who would think something as simple as cleaning and
measuring an infant immediately after birth would cause problems? As a
child I remember adults telling me not to pick up newborn baby animals
because the mother would either hurt me or worse the mother would reject
or kill the baby.  The newborn period for mother and baby is a very
sensitive one.  My post was not an attack on the medical profession who
works hard and cares greatly about newborns and their health.  I just
thought about what it must be like to be a newborn in a hospital
separated from mom and held by strangers.  Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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