>Dr. Nils Bergman from South Africa has created a
>wonderful framework for looking at birth and babies. He talks about babies
>either being in survival mode or grow mode after birth. The two are
>incompatible. An injured baby, or one separated from its mother will release
>hormones that will enable it to endure the trauma for a while. During that
>time, it will not breastfeed well or act normally. We need our babies to be
>in grow mode, with their mothers so they will breastfeed well.


I like this frame of thinking. Has it been written up anywhere?
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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