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Dear Friends:
The post escaped before I was finished.
Jacobsen, Salk, Hattori, and a host of others have examined
relationships between events. There are connections between drugs used in labor and
methods of suicide, drugs used in labor and drug used in
addiction...............connections between schizophrenia and cesarean section.
There is no study that says X causes Y. Can't do that, because people
are so complicated and our lives are spent juggling variables.
However, a new concept is that a combination of susceptibilities create
a garden for disease to grow in. Think onion. There can be a spot in one
layer of an onion; you can cut it out and use the onion for cooking. Even two
spots can be removed to salvage the onion. But when the spots on the different
layers line up and make a big nasty mushy spot, it's time to toss the onion in
the compost.
So with disease. Take a mother who smokes in pregnancy, whose family
background includes a genetic predisposition towards some disease, has an
induced labor and operative delivery, and who chooses not to breastfeed. That baby
has already a collection of risk factors that might not tolerate its family
living in a place (like Texas) where the air quality in some cities is the
worst in the country.
No one thing made the baby sick; it was a combination.
Spontaneous undisturbed birth in a loving environment to a
well-nourished woman won't make a perfect baby; but it certainly is a combination of
health boosts!
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative
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