I think for those of us working in hospitals, we cannot really say what is
normal infant behavior in the first 24 hours.  Maybe what we see is normal
for babies born in hospital.  Maybe it is not only the medications that the
mom gets in labor, but also the fact that at some point babies are separated
from moms, for a doc check, bathing and weighing, inoculations, etc.     At
that point ( and I know this from sitting in the receiving room for newborns
the night that my grandson was born), the babies first start rooting like
crazy looking for mom, then they start crying, and then go into shutdown
sleep, some for as long as 20 hours. Even babies born in unmedicated births
in my hospital have the same patterns. 

 Is that normal?

 Is it normal to be taken away from mom?

And when they finally do wake up and start feeding, they will feed for hours
on end, leaving moms exhausted and feeling that they do not have enough milk
( the famous day 2 syndrome which greatly increases artificial milk sales).

 

Do any of you attend home births? What kind of behavior are you seeing in
home births?  Is it the same pattern?

 

What is normal?

 

Esther Grunis, IBCLC  still trying to figure it out

Lis Maternity Hospital

Tel Aviv, Israel

 


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