In a message dated 4/7/2005 6:37:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Why would it not just go through their digestive system like any
other fluid? Like Ann said, it makes no sense that this fluid would need
to come out through the mouth to make a baby feel better.
I have always heard that c/s babies, especially planned c/s, and babies
from a fast delivery are more spitty because they did not get the fluid
squeezed out of them. What I see these babies do I would classify as
vomiting. They are not just dribbling fluid out of their mouth like a baby
does after a good meal. I always associate vomiting with an infection or
stress. Do other mammals gag and vomit after they are born?
Dear Friends:
Duh..........how can I be so stupid not to see this more clearly?
I would bet that other animals don't vomit or choke, or at least not to
that extent. Many littering animals have their newborns come in little
packages; the mother tears the sacs open with her teeth and may eat them. She then
licks the baby all over for quite a while.
Here is another perversion of truth; we have been taught one thing
(babies need to be suctioned to get that fluid out) to avoid dealing with a
truth, that babies NEED that squeeze (and maybe for differing lengths of time
depending on pelvic bone diameters, the laboring environment, and the size
and position of the baby??)
We see wet babies more now, because now close to 1 baby in 3 is
delivered ( I can not call it born) surgically, without labor. Dr. Michel Odent
(in another gem of a book, The Cesarean) speaks of the need to distinguish
between labor and non-labor surgeries. It makes a difference.
Then those wet babies get sucked out and guess what??? They aren't so
eager to go to breast. They would rather go back in their shells like wee,
darling turtles, and refuse to breastfeed. They have been violently invaded,
assaulted, and injured. They have to heal to get back into the green, oxytocin
zone. The postnatal rituals put babies in the red, adrenalin zone.) Smart
babies.
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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