In a message dated 10/12/2005 9:29:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Continues to rain in the medical intervention field of birthing....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051012/ap_on_he_me/chilling_babies
Dear Friends:
This article adds more fuel to the war on babies, mothering, and
breastfeeding. The attack on kangaroo care has now begun; according to this article,
stressed newborns should be refrigerated instead of held skin-to-skin! I
know, from my adult intensive care experience, that cooling an injured person
reduces the brain's need for energy and fuel; however, the thought of chilling
newborns upsets me.
Evidence (unpopular evidence, politically incorrect evidence) shows
that birth has an impact on some personality choices. I am thinking of the
Jacobsen and Salk and Huttori research showing that certain acts and conditions
can be associated with birth practices. (There is more research than this, see
the Primal Health Data Bank (_www.birthworks.org/primalhealth_
(http://www.birthworks.org/primalhealth) )
What will the impact of chilling newborns at birth on their whole lives?
As the use of birth technology is epidemic now, at least in the US, there
are plenty of stressed newborns that would, according to this developing
framework, benefit by being chilled.
The new AAP policy will reduce breastfeeding even further; Helen Ball,
in her study published in Birth in 2003 or 2004, made the conclusion that
keeping babies out of parents beds works against breastfeeding promotion. When
milk flows, mothers and babies get sleepy.
I shudder to think that the impact of the AAP policy will be more babies
dying of crib death, with less breastfeeding, less sleeping with mothers and
more formula use because mothers are being taught to be afraid of sleeping
with their babies. When milk flows, mothers and babies get sleepy; this is a
way of saying that they should sleep!
What more can 'science' do to us?
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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