Susan,

Your clear, witty answer in Lactnet is an absolute classic! It goes into
my "verbal script file" immediately! It fits to a "T" to what I hear so
often.

Sleep deprivation, visual cues and general overall emotional state
sometimes greatly influence judgement. Helping mom create a "yardstick"
specifically for expressing comparative breast pain gives her a more
efficient vocabulary to judge her situation and need for help.

A pain scale helps everyone put things into better perspective so we're
all reading off more or less the same page! Would go a long way toward
everybody giving more consistent advice! And it would build some much
needed honesty into the prenatal education process!

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio

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