Dear Friends:
     "Here's a very typical example: A mother states she wants to
breastfeed.She  is supported and encouraged by the LC. She has successful feeds. At night
 she has the nsy feed the baby formula. The next day the LC comes back and
they start again, but the mother says "not right now I am going to take a shower
(baby is actively rooting)" or "I'll try later." Sometimes she says this the
very first day and doesn't do more than 1 or 2 feeds in a 24 hr
 day. I don't get it, but it could be modesty or any number of things. Most
 of us are too busy to really actively listen and figure it out. Maybe we
 never would figure it out."
       Dear Friends:
       Perhaps these situations arise because mothers and babies are in
hospitals. Period. They belong home, where they can focus on each other.
       Haven't you noticed how women are so polite to a stranger, and many
times will be groomed with a company face on in hospitals, where strangers are
going in and out of their rooms all day long, even the very day they deliver?
Maybe this is a culprit, forcing mothers to put their attention outward to the
world, instead of inward, to the baby at their side.
       Just a thought...
       warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, 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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