There was a time when you would be surrounded by your mother, sisters, grandmother, aunts and female cousins during not only birth but for the first few weeks after baby's arrival. Other cultures still have a period of “lying in” in which mother and baby spend their time mostly in bed bonding and being nurtured by others. Unfortunately, our culture has become one that values moms to “bounce back” as soon as possible, out shopping and doing household chores within a couple day