Dear Friends:
 
Jean describes a situation in South African that tells me birth is  
mismanaged everywhere in the world. 
 
So here's a totally drugged baby been born. Apparently mom uses tobacco and  
was given several drugs in labor, including demerol (pethidine) that can take 
a  newborn 4 days to clear. The finale is a cesarean section. 
 
This baby is too disorganized to even do reflexive behavior. Poor baby.  What 
to do?j After 4 days, baby has calmed home and is going home fully  
breastfed. Excellent.
 
Fabulous to feed baby colostrum. Fabulous for the skin to skin. Can this  
mother and baby be put to bed together in a darkened room and left alone? No  
strangers to touch baby? (I remember my newborn, taken from my perineum,  
intubated and deep suctioned before being returned to my arms. She would  be calm 
except when anyone wearing blue scrubs came within her vision;  then she started 
screaming. Babies are learning immediately at birth.)
 
Maybe this type of baby needs swaddling, as with any baby that is  recovering 
from drug detoxification?  What about remedial  co-bathing...............but 
that wouldn't work with a fresh cesarean  section. Can everybody get massaged, 
mother and baby?
 
Babies are like canaries in the mines. 
 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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