In einer eMail vom 4-12-01 11:23:23 West-Europa (standaardtijd) schreibt
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> Check with Molly Pessel at Evergreen in Seattle.  They do immersion baths
> there if the parents want.I know she talked about how the infection rate is
> no greater.  I'll check with my notes from that conference.
>
>

In The Netherlands every baby is bathed in a horizontal or vertical tub,
mostly directly after birth, and then every day starting on the first morning
after birth around 9.00h.
Mothers sometimes ask me if it is OK to bath the baby some other time in the
day or to skip bathing at some days and they are very surprised and sometimes
relieved that that is actually allowed.
On the other hand are new moms hardly ever allowed to bath (instead of
shower) untiull the pp bleeding has stopped.
On a LC seminar a couple of weeks ago we discussed ''therapeutical bathing''
as an option for latching problems in newborns (mom and baby take a nice warm
bath together, sometimes called rebirthing) and we came to the conclusion
that it is dufficult to have new moms do this because in our country mom is
not allowed to bath but baby is, and in other countries mom is allowed to
bath but baby is not.
Ain't it a strange world we're living in?

Gonneke van Veldhuizen
IBCLC, LLLL, MOM
Hillensberg, Germany

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