Personally, I do not know what happened to any of my first three babies
as they were wisked away so fast, it was hard to realize, I'd even had a
baby. My last baby was born in Germany, in a German hospital (as opposed
to an American military hospital), she was given to me wrapped in a
receiving blanket immediately after birth. Perhaps they had wiped her
nose and mouth, but certainly not much more than that. And was washed,
obviously very gently, as it was right next to me and she never made a
peep, about an hour after she was born. Weighed and dressed and given
back to us for another 30 mins or so.

One of the reasons I can't watch A Baby Story on The Learning Channel is
the way they handle babies in most of the births. If I'd ever seen
someone handle one of my babies so roughly in the seconds after birth,
I'd come up off the table and start screaming lawsuit (and probably a
few choice nasty words). Of course the main reason I don't watch the
show is the epidurals and laboring flat in a bed - I've been forced to
do it twice and done it completely my way twice (although other than
number one, no anesthesia). I tell moms that my extemely wonderful,
floating on the top of the world, I can do anything feeling after an
undrugged delivery is the reason I recommend it, compared to my first
son where two weeks after delivery I still felt drugged out. I only
recommend that show to the moms I see, with a caution and usually only
if they've never had a baby, so they get some idea of what it's like.

Leslie Ward
Vine Grove, KY

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