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From: mark@tove.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Siblings during birth
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Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 19:32:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  1 19:32:29 1985
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Summary: Our sibling presence during home birth was fine.

In article <1216@linus.UUCP> peg@linus.UUCP (Margaret E. Craft) writes:
(I love how rn sticks that little comment in above without me hardly asking...)
>Another issue I have yet to decide:  should a 2 year old come to
>visit mom in the hospital?  I asked about 8 people how their 2 year old
>reacted when they DID visit, and 3 of them had horror stories.
>Intestingly, all three were working mothers!  I'd have guessed that
>kids of working Moms would handle it better, but then all had major
>problems "leaving Mom behind".  Of the other 5, only 2 were positive -
>the other 3 were "didn't seem to matter one way or the other".
>Anyone else want to add to the data pool?  Maybe I'll be late enuf
>to use the advice!!
>
>		peggy craft


I'll add to a different but possibly related data pool: young children
present at births.  This generally requires a home birth, I think--
at least it was in our case.  Nicole, age 4, more or less hung around
and watched her sister Corinne be born.  Nicole had her own caretaker
(Mom and Dad were kind of busy), a close friend we were all comfortable
with on such an occasion.  Nicole drifted in and out of the birthing
room (Mom and Dad's bedroom) as things interested her.  Once Cori
became visible her interest never waned, and things moved pretty
fast at that point anyway.
-- 
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