Dear Friends:
       The blizzard is swirling and I have some rambling thoughts about
mothers' reluctance to feed babies often. Teresa Pitman touched on some of
the reasons: not spoiling baby, fear of obesity, fear that the newborn
nursing pattern will be the one that stays.
       I think there are some other reasons also that relate to birth
technology. There are a number of different studies (cited by Kerstin
Uvnas-Moberg and Michel Odent) where mother antelopes or sheep or other
quadrupeds would reject their newborns if they were given epidural
anesthesia.  There is some powerful disconnection when epidurals are used
that probably lays the groundwork for a mother preferring some distance
between the baby and herself. And when separation of mother and baby after
birth is added to that, it is logicall that a mother would continue to favor
the disconnection.
       What do you all think?
       Warmly,
       Nikki Lee (snowbound, where we have had 1 foot of snow already with at
least another foot expected)

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