the first-time mothers stayed at the hospital until the infant was discharge the third-time mother stayed for some week then preferred to share her time between her older children and the newborn. in a way the mother felt as if they were living in a vacuum a narrrow woeld where the health and wellbeing of their infant had hight priority and the days floated into each other in a uniform hospital rhythm with hours of skin to skin care and ferquent episodes of expressing breast-milk at the milk - machine as main activities