In a message dated 2/15/2006 8:05:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
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Even with  absolutely no interventions (except=20
intermittant monitoring) some of  these women are confrontational,scared to 
death (which is usually the case),  and more important completely unable to 
relax and let their body do the job it  has to do to give birth. For whatever the 
reason(s), these women's labors just  stop. I think that sometimes these 
women have invested so much negative energy  in worrying about what they don't 
want (and how the hospital is going to ruin  their birth experience), that they 
have spent little time educating themselves  about how they can help themselves 
and what the actual physiological birth  process is about.


Dear Friends:
    What is relaxing about a hospital?
    And the mothers that are scared and  confrontational...........how are 
they treated? 
    Most birth doesn't belong in a hospital, just as  most death doesn't 
belong in a hospital. When normal human events are put in a  fishbowl of scrutiny, 
they then become "low-risk" and subject to monitoring and  judgement.
    Just as with breastfeeding, mothers are scared.  Fear is a dominant 
cultural value in the US, fear runs our political and  judicial systems. Isn't it 
logical for women to be fearful when what the media  shows of birth is dramatic 
and scary and papers report awful stories about  breastfeeding, linking it 
with death and sick babies? 
    How can women trust themselves, when they are not  trusted?
    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
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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