My mother had my brother in 1959 in Germany - my father was stationed with
the US army there. She said that the German midwives put him on her
immediately, watched until he latched on and then basically left them to
be. She remembers that they were together pretty much the whole time and
breastfeeding.
Sounds pretty perfect!


On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Patricia Young <[log in to unmask]>
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>  yes, ignored.  Except I think we need to find a nurse from late 50's -
> early 60's and see what they really did,  Babies were swaddled, some had
> left over gas that mom was given in labor.  Babies were brought to mom
> every 4 hours to hold,  Who knew what feeding cues were back then :-)  I
> don't remember  questioning  why I wasn't feeding yet, but I was 18 :-(
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