In a message dated 97-10-12 21:14:42 EDT, you write:

<< Date:    Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:23:46 -0400
 From:    michelle i scott <[log in to unmask]>
 Subject: First feedings

 I know of a birthing center which calls the first hour after birth the 4th
 stage of labor and keeps the mother in the birthing room for rest,
 breastfeeding, and waits for all the baby tests, eye stuff, etc until this
 hour is up.   It is all considered part of the birth, not part of the
 postpartum period.   It works there, in NY where lots of regulations by the
 state exist, but this gets around them.
 Michelle Scott, RD,MA,IBCLC, now in NH

 PS   In my last post I wrote ' l0 ADH' ,   it was supposed to be the ADH is
 l0X normal in the first few days.  Anyway, right now I cannot recall where
 I read that.   But basically it says that babies have enough fluid on board
 for the first few days.   Wt loss may result also from the drying of soggy
 little bodies who have living in fluid and are now adjusting to a dry
 environment.
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