Dear Friends:
    The Ransjo-Arvidson study in Birth March 2001 showed that babies cried
the least when their mothers were unmedicated in labor; babies cried
significantly more in the first 2 hours, even when skin-to-skin, when their mothers were
medicated. Gene Cranston Anderson talks about the damage that crying does to
the newborn physiology including increased intracranial pressure leading to
small hemorrhages in the brain circulation and keeping the foramen ovale open.
    Marshall Klaus talks about responding to babies within 90 seconds to
minimize crying. Another researcher, whose name I don't have right now, in the
book Evolutionary Medicine writes that babies all over the world cry with the
same frequency. However, the duration of crying varies.
    At a class I taught last week, a participant told of a baby readmitted to
their hospital for cardiomyopathy secondary to prolonged crying over a long
period of time.
    Poor babies.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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