Hear, hear re: Jennifer Tow's post, who wrote:

"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?"


The wonderful Niles Newton and Michael Newton did work long ago on 
oxytocin, with Niles writing on oxytocin as the hormone of love.  Niles was a 
PhD psychologist and her husband Michael was an obstetrician.  We have 
much educating to do of families regarding the role of oxytocin - - great 
analogy, Jennifer.  Wonder what oxytocin and prolactin are busy doing when 
one is falling in love with another, including mother and baby.  

The Birth and Life Bookstore, now part of Cascade, was owned and operated 
by Lynn Moen for many years - - I loved being on her mailing list back in the 
1980s.  After Lynn sold Birth & Life Bookstore to Cascade, I ordered the two 
collections of Niles Newton's articles, one on labor & birth and the other 
volume on breastfeeding.  These "ancient" writings are so precious to me that 
you may pry them out of my dead hands someday! The first time I read Niles 
Newton's tribute to her late husband (included in one of those two volumes), I 
wept.  

After a quick glance, I do not now see these collections listed with the Birth & 
Life Bookstore through Cascades' website.  If they no longer carry these 
volumes, I wonder if another publisher is doing so or if Niles and Michael 
Newton's son Edward Newton (an obstetrician in the U.S.) can provide 
information on how to obtain these priceless volumes for anyone who is 
interested.  

Debra Swank, RN IBCLC
Ashburn, Virginia USA

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