Dear friends, 

Many thanks to everybody who answered. You throughful posts helped me a lot.

Susan and Karleen: thanks for bringing up the similarities  with the
colostrum taboo. I will look for information about changing cultural
practices. As I remember, there was lots of information  about behavior
change on the Linkages Project site www.linkagesproject.org
I can even use this colostrum thing as an example of strange beliefs!
(luckily, there are no prejudices about colostrum in our culture and all
mothers know that is a precious first milk)   

Susan, do the  mom from your support group, who is Ukrainian heard anything
about such a superstition? 

Nikki: it is a good idea about blessing! My friend's husband is a priest so
I will ask her. Ortodox Church discourages all those superstitions as I
know. 
Darillyn: yes, I tell moms that many babies around the world became only
heathier and happier when  their mother relactated for them. It seems to
alleviate their fears. 

 It seems that this superstition do not apply to small babies. If mother
brings baby to breast  when the little one is, say, one  or two month old,
and mom wasn't able to breastfeed  before, mom is praised and I do not know
that such a mother was told something about those "evil eyes". All mothers
who mentioned that belief to me had babies older than 3 months (most of them
had much older babies). I am thinking about asking moms in the
russian-speaking parenting board what do they know about  this superstition
and whether something like that exist in Russia. 

Sincerely yours, 
Victoria Nesterova,
bf supporter, Kiev, Ukraine 

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