Marsha  says:
 
<<I know  it hasn't been proven that babies of moms who have retained a lot of
water  could be overloaded themselves, so let me pose this question.  How  do
you explain babies who are feeding ok, though not great, and sometimes  not
even ok, who pee and poop like there's no tomorrow for the first 1-2  days?>>


 
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1. There actually was a  very small study that was reported in the ABM 
newsletter awhile back that showed  that mothers that had epidurals (by extension, 
more fluids) had babies that  weighed more (and lost more) than mothers that 
did not have epidurals.   (Merry, ABM News, 2000)
 
2.  Pitocin is an  antidiuretic (look it up in the PDR).  As such, it holds 
fluids in the  mother's body (one of the reasons Jean "invented" RPS).  It is 
also going  to work the same way on the baby if the mother got pit while the 
baby was in  utero!!  i.e. -- stimulated or induced.  
 
3.  It would be  helpful if every diaper that comes off the baby w/ something 
in it were weighed,  and then compared the weights of whatever is eliminated 
in the first 2 days by  induced/epidural/high volume fluid mothers to weights 
of the diapers of babies  who were born to mothers that didn't have 
induction/epidurals/high volume  fluid.
 
Can't do it at my  hospital because we will have all former and no latter.  
Unless we could do  a cut off point -- anyone that had the 
induction/stimulation/epidural for 3  hours or less, or 2 liters of fluid or less BEFORE the baby 
was born, compared  to the mothers that had induction/stimulation/epidural for 
more than 3 hours or  more than 2 liters of fluid.
 
Any  takers?
 
Jan Barger
Wheaton IL

_http://motherofbridebyJan.blogspot.com_ 
(http://motherofbridebyjan.blogspot.com/)  

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