Dear Friends: The blizzard is swirling and I have some rambling thoughts about mothers' reluctance to feed babies often. Teresa Pitman touched on some of the reasons: not spoiling baby, fear of obesity, fear that the newborn nursing pattern will be the one that stays. I think there are some other reasons also that relate to birth technology. There are a number of different studies (cited by Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg and Michel Odent) where mother antelopes or sheep or other quadrupeds would reject their newborns if they were given epidural anesthesia. There is some powerful disconnection when epidurals are used that probably lays the groundwork for a mother preferring some distance between the baby and herself. And when separation of mother and baby after birth is added to that, it is logicall that a mother would continue to favor the disconnection. What do you all think? Warmly, Nikki Lee (snowbound, where we have had 1 foot of snow already with at least another foot expected) *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html