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"Laura Hart, RN, BSN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:52:06 EST
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Esther asks "Anyone else seeing that movie?? I call it white  nights....sigh. 
 
I have to start giving prenatal courses in infant  behavior when
separated from mother."
 
As I was reading your post, I was smiling & thinking YES! This is  exactly 
what I see. Accurate description Esther. 
Laura Hart
Winter Park, Florida
 
 
In a message dated 2/14/2006 12:05:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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They are  then taken to the procedure room where
all those procedures take  place.  There, the survival instinct kicks in:
babies look around in  shock, start rooting like crazy to relocate mom.
If they do not find mom,  the next part of the survival instinct
starts...crying....still no mom,  they go into that deep sleep which is
almost impossible to wake them from  for several hours.  
When baby does wake up, he starts rooting like  crazy.  If he is with his
mom ( we do encourage rooming in), she  thinks he is hungry, puts him to
breast, and he feeds until he relaxes, so  happy to be reunited with his
mom.  If she even tries in the next few  hours to put him back into that
awful little plastic box on wheels, he  screams and starts rooting
again..."Mom, I will do anything, just do not  put me back in that box!!"
This is the scenario for the next few hour until  the mom is sure that
the baby is starving, offers him the bottle, he takes  a few sips and
says " Yech, if this is what you are offering me, I would  rather go back
into survival mode for the next few hours", and he goes back  into that
comatose sleep from which it is really difficult to wake him.  
And that is the way the artificial milk companies make their  money
because many of these babies drink so much of that stuff that they  are
no longer satisfied with colostrum, and I come in the morning and  have
to do breastfeeding rehab.


 

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