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Marsha says:
<<I know it hasn't been proven that babies of moms who have retained a lot of
water could be overloaded themselves, so let me pose this question. How do
you explain babies who are feeding ok, though not great, and sometimes not
even ok, who pee and poop like there's no tomorrow for the first 1-2 days?>>
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1. There actually was a very small study that was reported in the ABM
newsletter awhile back that showed that mothers that had epidurals (by extension,
more fluids) had babies that weighed more (and lost more) than mothers that
did not have epidurals. (Merry, ABM News, 2000)
2. Pitocin is an antidiuretic (look it up in the PDR). As such, it holds
fluids in the mother's body (one of the reasons Jean "invented" RPS). It is
also going to work the same way on the baby if the mother got pit while the
baby was in utero!! i.e. -- stimulated or induced.
3. It would be helpful if every diaper that comes off the baby w/ something
in it were weighed, and then compared the weights of whatever is eliminated
in the first 2 days by induced/epidural/high volume fluid mothers to weights
of the diapers of babies who were born to mothers that didn't have
induction/epidurals/high volume fluid.
Can't do it at my hospital because we will have all former and no latter.
Unless we could do a cut off point -- anyone that had the
induction/stimulation/epidural for 3 hours or less, or 2 liters of fluid or less BEFORE the baby
was born, compared to the mothers that had induction/stimulation/epidural for
more than 3 hours or more than 2 liters of fluid.
Any takers?
Jan Barger
Wheaton IL
_http://motherofbridebyJan.blogspot.com_
(http://motherofbridebyjan.blogspot.com/)
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