Wonderful analogy Sharon.  I will probably use it with the moms that I work
with.

  It seems that most of us use some variation of one or two breasts as baby
desires.  I usually encourage most of the moms I work with to finish the
first breast first.  Mom knows baby is done when he spits the nipple out,
relaxes his jaw and drops off the nipple, or falls asleep.  If the baby
shows feeding cues again, offer the first breast again.  If he is at all
unhappy or fussing on the first again, go to the second side.  A lot of the
babies in my practice deal with oversupply because mom thinks baby is asleep
when he is just dosing before a new burst of sucking.  If switched at that
time, he tends to fuss a lot because he was wanting to enjoy the nice,
creamy hind milk, not be drowned in fore milk.

Linda Pohl, IBCLC
Phoenix AZ
Still looking for an IBCLC to work with in Mesa/Phoenix

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From:   Lactation Information and Discussion
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sharon S Knorr
Sent:   Friday, November 13, 1998 7:25 AM
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Subject:        one breast - two breasts

I remember one mom saying how she
made sure that her animals had access to fresh food and water at all
times, and yet we deny the same to babies.  Nice analogy, i thought