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Yes and there is more than one study which found that introduction of
rooming in in hospitals resulted in a dramatic decrease in abandonment of
babies.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Blumfield" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: breastfeeding and attachment
> This is totally anecdotal but if we ask the question: when was
> breastfeeding in its greatest decline and another question: when did birth
> move into hospitals with routines that separated mothers and babies
> sometimes for 36 hours for "resting", we will find that the answers are
> correlated.
> Into the sixties in the UK, mothers were hospitalized for more than a week
> during which they received their babies every four hours for twenty
> minutes.
> As late as the 1970`s babies were whisked away the moment the cord was
> cut, wrapped up and taken to the newborn nursery for tests like "the
> overhaul of a new washing machine" as Dr. Frederik Leboyer described it.
> It was his book: Birth Without Violence 1979 - and the lectures he gave
> all over the world after its publication which made hospital managers take
> a look at the damage they were doing.
> Is it any wonder that this lack of contact, of skin-to-skin, of time spent
> with the baby resulted in a delay in prolactin, the "mothering" hormone
> with its subsequent effect on attachment and milk supply.
> Wendy Blumfield
> NCT BFC/ANT Tutor
> Israel Childbirth Education Centre
>
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