Karleen reports:

<Night-born babies 'have higher death risk'  Source: AP|Published: Friday
July 28, 1:41 PM  Babies born at night are almost twice as likely to die
as
those delivered in the daytime, a new study showed today.  Researchers
assessed the effect of night and day on infant death rates following more
than 380,000 births in Hesse, Germany, between 1990 and 1998.>

Speaking as a former night nurse for many years, many of them during the
baby boom and general anesthetics and few if any regional anesthetics,
C.sections or elective inductions, and those by nasal or buccal (poorly
controlled) pitocin, it would be interesting to know if this study
separated out which of these babies were products of labors induced or
augmented during the daylight hours preceding the nighttime birth!

Those 57 out of some total of 380,000 births shouldn't be so hard to go
back and research. What's that they say about statistics being able to be
made to say whatever you want them to say?

Couldn't doctors just insist the hospitals pay night shift workers more
and require better training rather than using this as an excuse to
interfere (oh excuse me-INTERVENE) so much with labor? Of course, there
IS the doctor's sleep to consider, and I don't mean that facetiously.
It's a real factor.

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio (back from Washington with lots to think about)


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