Hi all,
I'm on my way to work in a few minutes but can't resist joining in.
I talk with mothers about GOOD latch, and explain that I mean 'comfortable
and effective' when I say 'good'.  There are some features we know to look
for, or some of us know, anyway, but the bottom line is the answer to 'does
it work?'

Righard and Alade's work showing how rarely babies latch on poorly when they
are unmedicated and unseparated from mother in the first hours after birth,
and how frequently they latch on painfully and ineffectively when they are
medicated (through mother's analgesia) or separated, and especially when
they are both medicated AND separated, should be reviewed by all of us.  The
babies do it themselves, without ever having read Chloe Fisher or anyone
else, and they GET IT RIGHT.

About there being no one position that works for everyone, well, DOH!  At
the risk of being grossly misunderstood, there's no one position that works
for everyone in any intimate contact sport, esp. those driven by oxytocin.
We're versatile and our bodies fit together in different ways.  I'd hate to
think what our love lives would be like if we only knew *one correct way* to
put bodies together (not to mention how it would be if we had to learn that
*way* in a ward room in a hospital after just experiencing one of the most
profoundly changing things in our lives, with new staff coming to help on
every shift, and not being allowed to go home until we got it *right*).

And with that, I'm off to the trenches.  Think about it.
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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