Anne Marie Widstrom told me that from their studies, it can indeed take 
2 hours for epidural exposed infants to latch. Look at her papers, and 
those of Bystrova (her collegue) and Jonas and colleagues have a whole 
series on the effect of epidurals (including one that shows half the 
oxytocin levels after birth in women who had an epidural during labor).

Happy hunting!

Catherine Watson Genna BS, IBCLC  NYC  www.cwgenna.com

On 6/23/2014 2:44 PM, Sandy Hess wrote:
> I recently read that the use of epidurals can delay the self latch of baby post birth by up to one hours.  I really to find the source of this.  Does anyone have it?  If so, please email me at [log in to unmask]   THANKS
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