My mother had her first two babies (me and my sister) in England, with 
midwives and still (she's in her late seventies) recalls those births very 
positively. She had moved to Canada before she had her third baby, and says 
she was shocked by what happened to her during the birth - the drugs, being 
strapped down on the delivery room table, etc. And when my sister was born, 
my mother says "I felt like she was a stranger" instead of the instant 
connection she'd felt with her first two babies. Perhaps not surprisingly, 
she only breastfed that baby for six weeks, even though she breastfed her 
first two for almost a year.

Teresa Pitman 

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