Dear Friends:

Healing is SO complicated. I agree with Jennifer and others that a breech
position can be connected to emotional issues with the mother, such as wanting
to keep the baby near to her heart.

However, let us remember that the shape of the uterus and the cord also  play
a role. Sometimes babies get caught in the cord and stuck in an unfavorable
position.  A mother with a differently shaped uterus may lead a baby to  stay
breech for comfort.

My midwife told me, and I have read it elsewhere, that 1/3 of babies are
breech until about 36 weeks. As Odent says, it is a variation of normal: 3-4% of
babies will present some form of breech when labor starts.

Pulsatilla is a homeopathic remedy that can be used to calm a uterus  before
a version. Medical versions can be rough and painful; a midwife I know
engages the baby and turns it very gently.

Handling a baby roughly sets mother and baby up for  breastfeeding  problems,
and also for a different perspective to mothering.

As mothers are imprinting on what healthcare providers do (particularly
postpartum staff), we have to pay attention to how we interact with the dyad. I
am convinced that so much of the poor parenting of infants I see in malls
(crying, wailing babies being ignored or plugged with pacifiers and kept at
mother's knee level in a stroller and jiggled to soothe) comes from seeing
postpartum staff ignoring crying babies. How many of us have witnessed  postpartum
staff taking a baby off the breast "because the hour is up" or "the  doctor
wants to see the baby in the nursery". What does this teach a mother?

People learn more by what they see than by what they are told. Here's an
example:
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_Pediatrics._ (javascript:AL_get(this, 'jour', 'Pediatrics.');)   1985
Dec;76(6):872-9.

Hospital influences on early infant-feeding  practices.

_Reiff  MI_
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term="Reiff%20MI"[Author]&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.
Pubmed_RVAbstract) , _Essock-Vitale  SM_
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=Search&Term="Essock-Vitale%20SM"[Author]&itool=EntrezSystem
2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstract) .

Newborn nursery nursing staff members were surveyed to  determine their
attitudes and teaching practices regarding breast- and  bottle-feeding.
Concurrently, mothers using this nursery responded to a  structured interview concerning
their infant-feeding practices at 14 to 21 days  postpartum and possible
hospital influences on these practices. The nursing  staff strongly advocated
breast-feeding and did not favor specific  bottle-feeding practices or products.
Nursing staff counseling was generally  interpreted by mothers as supporting
breast-feeding, but this did not deter a  large proportion of mothers who stated
an initial preference for breast-feeding  from introducing formula as a
supplementary or exclusive form of infant feeding  during the short study period.
Almost all mothers doing any amount of  bottle-feeding at the time of their
interview were using the same formula brand  and a ready-to-feed preparation used
during their hospital stay. Other  influences on mother's infant-feeding
patterns are discussed. It is concluded  that the hospital staff and routines
exerted a stronger influence on mothers'  infant-feeding practices by nonverbal
teaching (the hospital "modeling" of  infant formula products) than by verbal
teaching (counseling supporting  breast-feeding). Future studies might explore
new ways of supporting mothers who  desire to breast-feed by designing
innovative hospital routines to model  breast-feeding rather than feeding by infant
formula.

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--------The  unwritten job in hospitals is to getting mothering off to a good
start; this is  even bigger than breastfeeding. I would bet dollars to
doughnuts that treating  babies like factory products is both the consequence and
one of the causes of  the state of children in the USA today.

warmly,

Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania USA
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