Pam, I LOVE it!  How do you make it illegal to be a mammal?!  I have a
quite extensive powerpoint presentation just sitting and waiting to be
presented on the "Science of Attachment".  There are numerous
studies/articles which I found on the internet on this subject.  There was
an excellent article in the July/August 2003 issue of Mothering magazine
on "the biological roots of love" which is extensively footnoted.  Linda
Palmer has information on her website as well as in her book Baby Matters
on the importance of oxytocin in all of this. If you go to one of the
search engines you will find quite a bit. Jared Diamond, a cultural
anthropologist, has also published on this subject. This makes perfect
sense to those of us who have degrees in biology and understand our
mammalian roots and is something that I have been preaching for years - we
cannot ignore our roots!  The irony of all this is that parents "get it"
when it is explained to them and I have recently had more parents telling
me (rather defiantly) that they have every intention of sleeping with their
babies at home.  They are also asking for information on how to do it
safely.  We have been told at our hospital that we cannot give out such
information due to liability issues.  I pose the question, "Who is liable
when a baby comes in DOA due to unsafe sleep practices and the parents
accuse the hospital of never having been educated?"  I pray daily that this
situation never occurs.
If parents get it why don't the so-called "experts"?  I wish all of you in
MO the best of luck in your endeavors at your meeting.

Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC

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