Dear Friends:
    Katie's vignettes are powerful. There are so many paradoxes about 
mainstream infant care in the developed world. People that sleep with cats and dogs 
and each other are horrified at the idea of an infant in their bed. If I was 
crying and my husband or daughter or friend or anyone looked at me and ignored 
me or told me that I was alright because I'd had a good dinner and was warm 
enough, I would go beserk.
    And what of these abandoned, neglected and ignored babies? When we are 
old and need lots of care, will those babies farm us out to day care centers, 
where we will be ignored and possibly even abused? Who will be able to afford to 
care for the aged in the best way?
    Gene Cranston Anderson has spoken about the cardiac damage done by long 
bouts of hard crying that keep the fetal circulation from evolving into strong 
extrauterine circulation. 
     I have seen cases of oversupply where I suspected the cause to be 
excessive infant crying; the breasts responded to the baby, even when the mother 
chose not to respond.
     warmly,
    Nikki Lee
    
   

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