On Thursday, July 14, 2005, at 10:23 PM, LACTNET automatic digest system 
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> I see lots of moms willing to spend time
> skin-to skin once you explain it helps to organize
> babies to their instincts and its heartening to
> witness this occuring even on a very small scale.
>
I think that this tack, focusing on babies' instincts, is a very 
positive thing for the moms to hear.  Too often I hear things in the 
first days pp like, "Oh, I can totally see his personality already: 
stubborn and lazy." (!!!)  So I approach it as, "Babies are born to be 
breastfed, and generally our job is just to get the obstacles out of 
their way."  It seems to help to convince moms who had epidurals to do 
s2s and so on, without inadvertently communicating to them that they did 
something less-than-ideal by having the epi.

Actually, this was the case with the mom of the "stubborn and lazy" 
baby, and I'll admit to cracking and saying, "He's not stubborn and 
lazy!  He's *drugged*!"  But there were lots of other frustrating 
factors in that case : /

Lynn in MO, USA

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