Hi, All:  I read a fascinating article (for CEU's, no less) in my current 
issue of AdvanceNurse, which is a free publication that goes out to RNs in 
the USA.  I believe it's regional and primarily serves as an inexpensive 
recruiting tool for hospitals, etc.  This issue's CEU offering was on the 
topic of Near Death Experiences (NDE) and how health care providers can 
identify this phenomenon and support the patient who experiences this.  The 
article listed common experiences that most people have during NDE as well 
as situations in which NDE is likely to occur.  I wasn't surprised to see 
cardiac arrest, surgery, accidents listed, but I was taken aback to see 
Labor and Delivery as an area where NDE is likely to occur - and not in the 
mother.  The authors/researchers believe that many babies who are products 
of a difficult birth experience NDE and that it can impact their behavior 
thruout life.  There are researchers currently following children who have 
stated that they have experienced NDE as well as those children who are 
suspected (based on their behavior) as having an NDE as early as birth.  
The implications are staggering, in my mind.  I have always felt that 
vacuum extraction is an especially barbaric method of delivery.  And to 
think that a delivery of this type may cause the baby to have a Near Death 
Experience?!  Wow!

Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL   USA

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