I know that in the context of American hospital births (immediate seperation of baby from mother for at least a few minutes, and often hours), giving oxytocic medications after the birth of the second shoulder to contract the uterus to reduce PPH is "evidence based medicine". When the need of infants to be skin to skin with mom immediately for healthy transition is recognized, and immediate skin to skin is widespread, this will become less often necessary. -- Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC New York City mailto:[log in to unmask] *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html