Dear Folks:
    This in response to Kathy Dettwyler's comment ".....foramina that they
pass through are holes in hard bone, not squishable."
    Babies don't have hard head bones. Calcification starts after birth; this
is a protective mechanism that keeps baby's heads relatively soft so they can
get out of the birth canal. Infant head bones can and do over-ride each
other. The individual bones themselves can also be terribly deformed by
birth, vacuum, forceps, and long hours spent lying in the same position.
These 5 bony plates that become the bones are quite squishable. And the
impact on breastfeeding of this squishing can be enormous.
    Warmly, Nikki Lee

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