I shook violenly after my first two section (as mentioned earlier) they were unplanned and followed long labors, long second stage pushing and also epidurals. My third section was planned, I went into latent stage labor after an amnio was performed to check for surfactant, then had the section about 8 hours later with a spinal. I did not experience much shaking this time. I feel there is quite a bit of interplay between hormones, drugs, cold ORs, and even fear! I have also worked with quite a few home birth moms who experienced shaking w/o any of the above except hormones. I would imagine the rate of shaking in high tec intervention laden deliveries would be higher, however. Initiating breastfeeding was much easier for both the baby and myself in the planned, nonlaboring, spinal assisted section. I also perceived that our baby was MUCH less stressed than the babies I had after my terribly difficult labor attempted deliveries. FTR, I feel my experience is rather rare as most babies are much less stressed with vaginal deliveries. Mary Jozwiak IBCLC Private Practice *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html