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Joyce Blangiardo <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:06:01 UT
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On  Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:11:40 -0400 Linda Smith wrote:

>>If epidurals are "standard" now, we could likewise say that "twilight sleep"
(morphine plus scopalomine -a hallucinogen) was standard,
saddleblocks-with-forceps was standard, and "knock em out" was standard too.
The actual "standard" around the world is an unmedicated home birth with a
traditional birth attendant.<<

YEA Coach Smith!   Points well taken.   Remember when a 3 day minimum stay for
a vaginal birth was standard too?  4-5 days for a cesarean?   Nothing by mouth
for newborns for several hours after birth?  Then water or ABM given as the
first feed instead of  breastmilk?  The list goes on of things that used to be
standard....maybe we should start another list - the good and the bad things
that used to be standard. <grin>

Joyce Blangiardo RN, FACCE, IBCLC (whose mother had a 10 day hospital stay
after a normal spontaneous vaginal delivery and was kept on complete bedrest
the first 3 days because that was standard (read with sarcasm) practice then.
 She remembers having "sea legs" the first time she got up)

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