Dear Friends:
     The hormonal, olfactory, and tactile messages that flood mother and baby
after birth are all designed to initiate breastfeeding. Baby uses the smell
of the amniotic fluid on its hands to move towards the breast. The areola is
said to smell similar to amniotic fluid.
     (Would some hospital LC  or midwife or physician PLEASE see about saving
amniotic fluid and using it for cases of maternal-infant separation or poor
latch? I'd take a cotton swab, dip it in the fluid, touch under baby's nose
to get its attention, put some on its hands, and some on the areola and put
baby skin-to-skin and see what happens.)
    There is so much published now on this topic. Besides the Righard and
Alade work, and Anne Marie Widstrom, and Kyllike Christenson, there is Dr.
Nils Bergman and Suzanne Colson. And probably lots more.
     Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CCE, craniosacral therapy
Adjunct faculty, Union Institute and University, Maternal and Child Health:
Lactation Consulting
Supporting the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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