Nikki Lee wrote: "Staff, particularly those that work in labor and  delivery, are often very scared. They never get to process that feeling, but  carry it instead to the next situation. This is why things are done 'just in  case'. This is one reason mothers go home lacking confidence; the hospital staff  has no confidence in breastfeeding (or spontaneous, undisturbed birth), so how  can they give any to the mother?"

Some of this fear may be due to having had their own traumatic birth experience and/or due to witnessing other women's traumatic birth experiences and/or due to their own loss of breastfeeding.... As long as these experiences remain unacknowledged, unprocessed, and ungrieved, doing things "just in case" will continue. Just as firefighters and law enforcement personnel deserve assistance in coping with the great stresses in their work, so do those who regularly witness (and may unknowingly participate in creating) great stress and trauma in childbirth and those who have experienced their own perinatal trauma and loss. Unfortunately, this assistance is usually sadly absent.

 Still nomail,

Cynthia

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Cynthia Good Mojab, MS clinical psychology, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM 
Ammawell 
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