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In a message dated 2/18/2007 9:39:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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At least  25% of babies in our culture cry/fuss more than 2 hours/day!  

Dear Friends:
    I wonder where this figure came from. Another  DVD?
 
    Infant crying is normalized in the hospital. As a  nurse working in L&D, 
and postpartum/nursery for years, I witnessed this,  sometimes daily in many 
institutions. I remember a nurse getting up and closing  the nursery door, 
because the crying babies kept me from focusing on change of  shift report.
    Was it James McKenna that said that we are birthing  babies who are ready 
to live in the Stone Age? Stone aged babies expected to be  carried/be close 
to someone all the time, as we see in all primates (save homo  sapiens). When 
they don't get what they are wired to receive, they complain. 
    1 in 3 babies are cut out of their mothers by  cesarean section in the US 
today. At least 50% are induced, put out of  their wombs too soon. They are 
born into hospitals where their  complaints are ignored, where they are usually 
taken away from their mothers.  Their mothers are taught to put the wrapped 
bundle into a fishtank, and plug its  mouth when it fusses. Maybe breastfeed 
sometimes, maybe not. 75% (or nearly that  figure) of mothers in the workforce 
have babies under the age of 1 at home. In  my City, only 40% of women initiate 
any breastfeeding. 
    Lots of reasons for babies to cry.
    Women can be scared or come to believe that lying  down and having their 
babies cut out of them or evicted is the right way.  Fathers can go along with 
this. Society can condone it.
    Babies are the onlypeople that can't be misled  by cultural forces. They 
know what they need. They are crying for us all, who  debate over a 
fundamental part of being primates, the connection between mother  and baby.
    warmly, with profound sadness and fears for the  future of our species....
 

Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Lactation Consultant,  Philadephia Department of Public Health
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty, Union  Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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