IN our hospital ( 9000 births per year/95 % epidural rate,/ 24% CS rate) babies are left with mom for up to two hours if there is not a huge line up in L+D. They are sometimes weighed and wrapped but not always, and most go to breast well. They are then taken to the procedure room where all those procedures take place. There, the survival instinct kicks in: babies look around in shock, start rooting like crazy to relocate mom. If they do not find mom, the next part of the survival instinct starts...crying....still no mom, they go into that deep sleep which is almost impossible to wake them from for several hours. When baby does wake up, he starts rooting like crazy. If he is with his mom ( we do encourage rooming in), she thinks he is hungry, puts him to breast, and he feeds until he relaxes, so happy to be reunited with his mom. If she even tries in the next few hours to put him back into that awful little plastic box on wheels, he screams and starts rooting again..."Mom, I will do anything, just do not put me back in that box!!" This is the scenario for the next few hour until the mom is sure that the baby is starving, offers him the bottle, he takes a few sips and says " Yech, if this is what you are offering me, I would rather go back into survival mode for the next few hours", and he goes back into that comatose sleep from which it is really difficult to wake him. And that is the way the artificial milk companies make their money because many of these babies drink so much of that stuff that they are no longer satisfied with colostrum, and I come in the morning and have to do breastfeeding rehab. Anyone else seeing that movie?? I call it white nights....sigh. I have to start giving prenatal courses in infant behavior when separated from mother. Esther Grunis, IBCLC Lis Maternity Hospital Tel Aviv, Israel *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html