OK,
This is what was written:

<< What kind of psychic trauma does this cause the baby? I heard one
 person call it "oral rape."  >>

Some of us in the real world call it "psycho-babble."


Now I have to take REAL exception to this as I have worked with a number of
infants who have have been vigorously suctioned and as a result have become
terribly orally defensive. Some babies become so highly defensive they can't
even stand to be touched. A terrible amount of work, patience, love and time
is required by the mother to heal the damage done to the infant by someone
who was simply to rough and not sensitive to the needs of the infant.

I have worked with a number of women who have been raped (I included) and
guess what?  They become emotionally and physically defensive.  Most of them
cannot handle being touched by anyone for any reason for a very long time.
They require terrible amounts of work, patience, love and time to heal from
the damage done by someone who did not take their needs into account and
only think about what they want and what kind of power trip they can get off
on by taking advantage of this woman.

Now I am not saying that the nurse/Dr/whoever who is vigorously suctioning a
baby is deliberately and intently causing harm and wants to have some sort
of power-trip thing over the baby.  However, the phsche of the baby has been
traumitized by this action, just as the pshyche of the rape victim, by
having something extremely unpleasant (and frightening) done to them against
which they have no power to stop.

So tell me, how many adults would lay back and voluntarily allow someone to
shove some suctioning device up their nose, down their throat wiggle it
around vigorously over and over again and do this without any desire to stop
this action?  I don't know of anyone who wouldn't want to shove the person
performing this suctioning away from them as
fast as they could.

Rape is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as:

3. "Abusive or improper treatment; violation; profanation: a rape of justice."

Vigorously suctioning an infant sounds like a violation and pretty improper
to me.

Jay
Jay Simpson, CLE
Sacramento (State Capital), California, West Coast, USA
"No Miracles performed here, just a lot of love and hard work."