Dear Friends:
    The posts on this topic have been thought provoking.
    What if the mothers' inability to retain cognitive information in the
immediate postpartum has to do with the artificial setting that she is in? If
she were at home, or had gone home 6 hours after delivery in a free-standing
birth center, would she be acting the same way?
    There was a study showing that a certain type of primate was
argumentative and combative. The results could not be replicated in the wild,
because the subjects studied first had been studied in zoos, and animal
behavior in zoos is far different to natural animal behavior in the wild.
    There is no way a hospital environment can provide privacy, which
researchers (Niles Newton jumps to mind first, then Michel Odent) have found
is necessary for birth. So could the new mother's foggy mind be an artifact
of her strange environment? How can she integrate all that she needs for this
new baby plus deal with the different sights, sounds, smells, and environment
of an artificially constructed environment?
    Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, ICCE, CSTP
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  northeastern USA)

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