Julie Szymanski wrote:
<< We have a couple of nurses who love to tell the mothers that the baby is
using them as a pacifier UGH! >>

In a little piece entitled "The Human Satisfier." Julie Allen Shivel analyzes
the term 'human pacifier.'  "To pacify means to make peace or calm.  And
breastfeeding certainly can do that. . . . Of course breastfeeding on demand
fills an empty tummy; it also nourishes a hunger for mother's touch, gentles
a weary infant toward sleep, develops baby's brain and body, helps organize
an immature nervous system, instills trust and quenches a thirst for love.
Breastfeeding is essentially a fulfilling experience for a baby, not merely a
pacifying one. . . ...that elevates us to 'human satisfiers'.  I can think of
many ways to pacify; however, there are few times in our lives when we truly
satisfy another's needs."

I hope that NEW BEGINNINGS will reprint the entire piece.  If you should
decide to use this excerpt, please credit Julie Allen Shivel, 'Turning
Leaves' (an LLL Leaders' newsletter), Spring 2000.  I think Julie has given
us a useful little tool and deserves credit (goodness knows there is no
money!) for her insight.

Alice Martino,
accredited volunteer with major support group
in central New York State
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