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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: bonding
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Date: Mon, 14-Nov-83 12:07:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 14 12:07:07 1983
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While I am not sure there is any "scientific" evidence for the importance
of bonding, there are a lot of testimonials available.  For my wife and I,
I think it may have been as (or more) important to us as (than) to our son.
We delivered in a birthing room, attended by a very understanding doctor (if
anyone in the Minneapolis area is interested we will send references), and
were allowed to hold our son for 2+ hours before he was taken to the nursery.

This was really great for me, and probably one of my life's most precious
times - to be able to help in the delivery, then to hold my son for awhile
while my wife was delivering the afterbirth and getting cleaned up and sewn
up herself.  We even had a friend in to see us 3 before the nurse took him
to weigh him and measure him, etc.

On another point - our Lamaze instructor (a former maternity ward nurse) had
pointed us toward arythromiacin (sp?) cream rather than silver nitrate, and
it turned out that the hjospital we delivered in had gone to using the cream
instead of the silver nitrate as the s.o.p. just weeks before we delivered.
From our experiance and our friends experiances, it seems to cause less
problems for the baby, and gives all the protection that the silver nitrate
was supposed to. (Not that we knew of any reason for us to worry, but the
laws of most states require something anyway.)
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