Say no to drugs.In the study that was cited in "Life Blood: Drug stops mothers' bleeding after births" (SN: 10/14/06, p. 243), misoprostol was tested as a more practical means of inducing postdelivery contractions in women in developing countries, despite "troubling side effects Side effects Effects of a proposed project on other parts of the firm. :' Because most women need no intervention to cause the uterus to contract, why not wait a few minutes to see which of them will require the medication, instead of subjecting every single one of them to "severe shivering and fever"? DIAN DUCHIN REED, SOQUEL, CALIF. Where drugs may not be available, why not use the natural approach to curb postpartum bleeding, namely, encourage breast-feeding breast-feeding /breast-feed·ing/ (brest´fed?ing) nursing; the feeding of an infant at the mother's breast. ? A baby's suckling suckling In mammals, the drawing of milk into the mouth from the nipple of a mammary gland. In human beings, it is referred to as nursing or breast-feeding. The word also denotes an animal that has not yet been weaned—that is, whose access to milk has not yet been stimulates the mother's flow of natural oxytocin oxytocin (ŏksĭtō`sĭn), hormone released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland that facilitates uterine contractions and the milk-ejection reflex. . Low tech perhaps, but the methodology has been working for millennia. VIRGIL H. SOULE, FREDERICK, MD. |
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