Virginia,
Thanks so much for those great references. Amazon.com will once again
benefit from our wonderful network.
ellen in Tel Aviv
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Virginia G Thorley
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:02 AM
  Subject: Are babies attached at birth


  Ellen Shein, and Everyone,
       Nils Bergmann said that, but so also did the late Ashley Montagu,
much earlier.  See if your library has Montagu's book,

  Montagu, Ashley.Touching: The human significance of the skin.  It is well
worth a look on these issues.  Columbia University Press, 1971. (I believe
there have been later printings.)

  Others have also written on "exterior gestation", e.g.

  Earnshaw PA. The baby's birthright: a plea for a return to exterior
gestation and breast feeding.  Med J Aust, Feb. 18, 1961.

  Those of you interested in these issues need to look at the references
used by both these authors, Montagu and Earnshaw, if you are serious about
seeing *where* these ideas came from, before that!  They certainly did *not*
originate in the two or three years, though they have been taken up and
applied by a new generation of fine people, such as Nils.
      To diverse slightly, I once met old Dr Earnshaw in his retirement,
when he accompanied the Flying Doctor on some of his regular clinics,
visiting the small town where I was then living.  Some time in the 1970s
(mid-1970s?).  It was only a brief encounter as it was a busy clinic day and
I wasn't a patient.  He was a respected Queensland paediatrician.
      Cheers,
          Virginia

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