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Dear Friends:
This is an interesting topic, with many answers.
Women are often assaulted in technologically driven birth, and
physically injured and/or energetically battered . Once the baby is born, the woman is
shocked into silence or resistance, as coping strategies to survive an
overwhelming situation.
I also wonder about the emotional impact of pitocin. Hormones create
feelings and feelings motivate behavior. As pitocin is now given to virtually
everyone that I see, whether as a LC in private practice or as a RN for an
agency, I wonder if the abuse of the synthetic hormone is creating another
susceptibility for women to keep some distance for their babies.
How many facilities keep the mother and baby undisturbed, skin-to-skin,
until the first breastfeed (as recommended by Righard and Alade)? Many
facilities have mother and baby stay together, but they are not left alone. Staff
have jobs to do, the dyad is frequently interrupted and there is pressure to
'do breastfeeding correctly' from the very first attachment.
Perhaps mothers whose prenatal intention is to breastfeed and who change
after delivery is an artifact of the birthing practices in institutions?
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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