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Southpaw Bookworm

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Wed Sep-21-05 10:44 AM
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10. The whole thing is fascinating

I've become really interested in the topic because (a) I'm of childbearing age and (b) a good friend had a homebirth back in February.

But I'm finding that it explains a whole hell of a lot. Like the decline of breastfeeding among middle- and upper-class women in the 50s and 60s: With the hallucination-inducing twilight anesthesia used during childbirth (when the woman was literally strapped onto her back onto a bed and was unconscious throughout the birth and the infant delivered with forceps), the newborn would often sleep for the first two DAYS.

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