In a message dated 2/23/2004 11:50:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
The speculation is that this mother suffocated her infant at the breast
(with, as you can imagine, all the resulting calls for changes in
allowing early feedings at the breast).  Is this possible?

Dear Friends:
    I don't know what happened in this tragic situation.
    However, this phrase makes me react strongly! Something happens to a baby
and it MUST be the mother's fault, and babies have to be kept from their
mothers who are dangerous for them.
    I am sick of this attitude. I see it with  Andrea Yates'  husband walking
around free when he was told not to make her pregnant again after the 3rd
baby. I see it with the myth of 'welfare mothers', who are said to have babies
only to get welfare while no one even considers that it is business, political
and corporate practices that are bankrupting the nation.  And now I see it
again here, where a mother delivers a healthy baby, nurses it, the baby dies, so
it must be that the mother did something.
     If early feedings at breast are not allowed, how can anyone risk sending
a baby HOME with its mother???
    Grrrr!
 Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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