These are great, from running with the shoelaces of both shoes tied
together, to both legs in one trouser leg, to the rubber band tying your arm
to your side.  But I didn't laugh out loud until I read Esther Grunis's
embellishment:
"I like your thermaband analogy, and would like to take it one step further.
After you have tied the peds arm, throw him/her into a pool and let him/her
swim laps.  Let's see how fast he/she tires out!!"  
I have someone in mind for this particular learning experience already, who
prefers to wait two or three *months* and see if a breastfeeding problem
develops, rather than clip a frenulum in the first few days.  

I've been asked by the head of peds to do a presentation in August to a
meeting of the pediatricians and the ENT docs at my hospital on the efficacy
of clipping tongue tie, which is a recurrent theme when the multi-resistant
docs are on duty.  I think this is the kind of teaching aid I need, some big
elastics.  Imagine trying to knit, or play cards, with a couple of big
rubber bands wound around your hands.  I'm going to have a variety of these
tricks incorporated into the talk and I will let you know how it goes.

After a tongue tie is divided, especially if the baby is several weeks old
before it is done, I find they want to feed but they tire, until that muscle
that has never been used in the intended way before gets used to working
right.  They aren't like adults, in that they don't try to avoid exercising,
but they need understanding as they develop the stamina to get a full feed
at the breast.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway, where we seem to have skipped summer this year, going
for liquid sunshine instead.  I don't like a drought any more than the next
person but when the potato fields look like rice paddies it's gone too far.

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