Gonneke wrote:

>This makes me wonder: are there any studies done on healthy newborns in a
>non-medicated, non-hospital setting. I wonder if any of us really *knows* what
>normal sleeping-feeding behaviour is of newborns in a *natural* setting,
>(meaning non-medicated birth in a non-hospital/institional setting), whit mom
>and baby not separated and both healthy. And what effect on short
>and long term
>milksupply this sleeping-feeding behaviour has. Does anyone out there know?

I don't know of any studies, but, I can give my own personal
experience.  My second child was born at home in my bed at 5:07pm.  I
got cleaned up and our midwife went out and got some dinner for us -
they bed sheets got changed.  I climbed back into bed with our new
little girl - I remember her breastfeeding off and on during the
night even when her brother came into our bed and wanted her out of
"his" place (between mom and dad).  I also remember the midwife being
surprised how much my uterus had shrunk - I wasn't surprised because
I was feeling the after pains - especially when Samantha breastfed.

So, I don't know if my experience us the usual one, but, that's what
happened to us!

Alicia Rudin, LLLL in the Bluegrass (Lexington, KY)
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