>Diane and all,
>    this question is especially for Diane Wiessinger.   Why would you
>want to get rid of the cross cradle hold?
>     I have some opinions about it myself but want to know what you
>think.

I feel as if it's a hold we LCs use to compensate for some bad cultural
images.  Moms tend to move babies too far to the side, tend to press on
their babies' heads, tend to let them roll belly-up.  The cross-cradle makes
it easier not only to avoid all those at latch-on but to avoid sliding into
them through the course of the feed.

But you never see an experienced mom holding her baby that way.  Unless
maybe she's doing something physical and that hand works out better at the
moment.  If we weren't a bottle-feeding culture with bottle-feeding ideas to
overcome, I doubt we'd have "codified" it the way we have.  It's not that I
want to get rid of it, it's just that I'm quite sure mom and baby, left to
their own devices in a perfect world, would usually go about it this way,
and I'm angling for a perfect world.  What are *your* thoughts?
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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