Actually it was not c-sections and modern medicine that started saving
mothers and babies - it was convincing physicans and presumably midwives to
WASH their hands and instruments.

Before that, childbed fever was killing lots of women, hospital, modern
medicine or not.

I do think this discussion mirrors the breastfeeding/artificial feeding
discussion. I do not think you can separate pregnancy and birth from
breastfeeding.

I do have a totally separate question though...I just attended a birth at
our largest area hospital on Friday. It was a c-section. The baby was taken
to the nursery right away and given glucose in a syringe before shots (the
father was told it was to help with pain). Is this standard all around the
country now? I was horrified. How does this affect gut colonization of the
not yet breastfed infant? I understand their are studies that point to this
lessening the pain but wouldn't a little colostrum do the same thing? I was
confused as this is the first time I saw this. How do you hospital IBCLCs
feel about this? Has it changed anything in the bf babies you see?
thanks,
micky

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