"But, I had 4 unmedicated births and the last three were all
very sleepy.  I have fast labors and someone suggested that my babies
were sleepy because they weren't in the birth canal very long and so
didn't get that stimulation to wake them up." (sorry, in the cut and paste
I lost who said this)

My last baby was born after I was an IBCLC.  With all of my newly acquired
knowledge, I was determined that she would be offered the breast as soon as
she was out.  Well, after a "real" and very quick (about an hour labor)
natural birth, she cried for her first couple of hours.  Wouldn't go near
the breast.  At a LLL conference the next year, one of the featured
speakers made a passing comment about babies who were born so rapidly that
they did just cry for hours.  To top it off, my baby was just over 9#8oz,
and so met the criteria for having a glucose checked; it was slightly low.
The staff insisted on giving a bottle; I absolutely refused.  I was able to
express some colostrum and spoon feed it.  And my labor was the ***first***
that all three physicians and many of the nurses had ever seen that was
unmedicated!  Despite how hard they pushed me to get an epidural.  I have 3
young daughters; I just hope the medical community wakes up to the bad
birth practices and their negative effects on breastfeeding before they
have their babies.

Marita Nickison, RN, IBCLC

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