>> KEEP PRACTICING BREASTFEEDING AT EVERY FEEDING.
>> This way the baby won't forget what to do once pumping brings in your
>>milk.
>
>I feel like I'm being picky but the word "practicing" really leapt out at
>me.
>To me it implies "you're not doing it properly so you have to keep
>practicing".  I'm sure that is not the intent but I suspect there would be
>some new mums who would take it that way.
>
>Saying "Keep breastfeeding at every feeding" seems much more positive.

We all see through such different eyes!  I *liked* the word, because I felt
it took the feeding pressure off.

I will sometimes tell a mom "For now, nurse as often as you like, but
consider it recreational nursing, *don't* think of it as feeding the baby.
Since your baby doesn't swallow much when he nurses, he's not getting fed
and you're not increasing your milk supply.  The pump will see to it that
both those things happen, and you won't spend all day trying to transfer
small amounts of milk.  As your baby gets better at this, we'll shift the
job from the pump to the baby.  But for now, the pump is where your milk
supply and his food are going to come from."  Because I saw the term through
my particular lens, I thought the word "practice" (or practise :-)  ) was
apt.

--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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