Dear Friends:

All this fuss about hypoglycemia is crazy. While there are a few infants at
risk for harm from low blood sugars.............the vast majority of babies
will  all have their blood sugars drop after birth, rise, and then stabilize by
2-3  hours of age.  I've posted 2 citations. And _www.bfmed.org_
(http://www.bfmed.org)  has a lovely protocol about  hypoglycemia, written by doctors for
doctors.

When our blood sugar drops, we eat because we are hungry. Newly delivered
mothers are usually very hungry; when babies blood sugar drops, they either  go
to breast or they mobilize brown fat stores and don't need any feeding for at
least 6 hours post birth.

If babies are left on their mothers chests or abdomens, skin to  skin, their
blood sugars stay up. (MCN December 2007 for a fabulous article  about Birth
Kangaroo Care, where the lowest blood sugar for a non-fed  baby kept skin to
skin was 43!)

However induced babies, i.e. iatrogenically premature babies, have  less
tolerance for all the bizarre, non-evidence based practice that is routine  in
hospitals. Babies are bearing the brunt of the adults' lack of sensitivity,
awareness, and evidence-based practice. Breastfeeding is often derailed before  it
has a chance to get started.

I can't think of one routine obstetrical practice that has any evidence to
support it.

Don't get me started.

warmly, and angry about the obstetrical juggernaut that  is rolling over our
precious babies!

( Diwakar et al. Archives of Disease in  Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition
2002;87:F46-F48
Cornblath et al. PEDIATRICS Vol. 105 No. 5 May 2000, pp.  1141-1145)

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania USA
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