Yes, BFHI is an attempt to institute "better rules" in an 
institutional/factory system in which neither birth nor breastfeeding fit 
well. Thus BFHI might make the system somewhat better but it does not deal 
with  the core issues inherent in institutions.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Tow, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 10:43 AM
Subject: breastfeeding in the first 2 hours of life


> How is it okay to separate, disorient, and damage mother and baby and then 
> throw the pair back together within some artificially determined time 
> frame and claim we have been "baby-friendly"? This is why we are 
> developing all kinds of interventions such as "self-attachment" protocols. 
> They are a symptom of dis-ease and an effort to heal it, but I would 
> rather we prevent the damage in the first place.
>
> I think the best analogy is this: imagine being in the midst of making 
> love and someone insists you separate while you are weighed and measured 
> and "cleaned up". Then you are placed back in the same bed to pick up 
> where you left off. Could you? And even if you could manage intercourse 
> (assuming you were left alone, unlike mom and baby), could you achieve the 
> same level of lovemaking that you had previously been engaged in?
>
> welcome 

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