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Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 3 Oct 2003 07:57:36 EDT
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Dear Friends:
     Rachel says it so well. The best thing we can do for latch is to leave
mother and baby alone after birth and let them work it out.

> About there being no one position that works for everyone, well, DOH!  At
> the risk of being grossly misunderstood, there's no one position that works
> for everyone in any intimate contact sport, esp. those driven by oxytocin.
> We're versatile and our bodies fit together in different ways.  I'd hate to
> think what our love lives would be like if we only knew *one correct way* to
> put bodies together (not to mention how it would be if we had to learn that
> *way* in a ward room in a hospital after just experiencing one of the most
> profoundly changing things in our lives, with new staff coming to help on
> every shift, and not being allowed to go home until we got it *right*).
>
>
     However, we also need to understand factors affecting latch because
there are too many situations where mother and baby are lost, either because of
hospital and obstetrical practice, or because of true difficulties such as
prematurity or health complications (congenital defects, variations from the
common, glandular insufficiency etc. etc.).
     Our professional is a reactive and protective field as the result of
routine technology and successful competing interests. I appreciate Rachel's
reminder of natural!
     warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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