Hi all,

I agree with Rachel that this discussion is off-topic and not much energy 
should be wasted on it.  However, when I first read the post with the link 
last night I was very upset and can't not say something.  I'm sorry to 
sound aggressive or step on any toes, but it is troubling to me with 
everything going on in today's world and all of the LEGITIMATE issues that 
involve our babies needing advocates for some to browse through an article 
(probably only a SINGLE one) and leave some of the ignorant sounding 
remarks that are being posted about this issue.   I think we need to not 
read too much into things like this.  The article had nothing to do with 
being anti-kangaroo care or separating mothers and babies for the sake of 
"medical intervention based on misguided research", or if undermining a 
breast-feeding relationship.  How ridiculous!  Reading the article myself, 
I don't know where anyone could possibly even get the idea that it would 
become standard practice for normal babies after birth.  How ridiculous, 
again!  This is innovative, not misguided, research, that one day MAY help 
REDUCE some of the misery of these families and the babies 
themselves.  These babies usually are for all intents and purposes 
"vegetables".  The don't nurse of even take a bottle.  I'm sure any mother 
in this situation would rather never nurse that baby a single day and have 
her be more functional, through ANY means necessary to make that happen, 
than to watch their severely brain-damaged child have 200 seizures a day 
and never leave the hospital and finally die 10 months later.  Let's stay 
focused on the real issues and not go attacking new research just because 
we are so programmed into believing that anything outside of a nice 
picture-perfect home birth is unnecessary intervention.  Reality 
check.  This treatment may never come to pass, but how dare people start 
bad-mouthing just the prospect.

Beth, a now irritated and saddened mother of 6, including 23 month old 
nursling
"When in despair, remember that all through history the way of truth and 
love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time 
they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall." Gandhi

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