On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:14:07 +1000, Karleen Gribble
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>I don't know if anyone else has come across this paper. Sounds horrible.
>Karleen Gribble
>Australia
>
>
> Title: Delayed infant death following catastrophic deterioration during
>breast-feeding.
> Authors: Krous, Henry F1,2 [log in to unmask],  Chadwick, Amy E, Stanley,
>Christina
>Source: Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health; Apr2005, Vol. 41 Issue 4,
>p215, 3p
>> Abstract: <snip>Breast-feeding mothers must be advised to pay careful
attention
>> to the potency of the infant's airway during breast-feeding to safeguard
>> against accidental suffocation. <snip>


It does sound horrible.  Being sure the baby is able to breathe *is* of
concern.
I helped a mother with a one-hour-old the other day and she needed repeated
direction to be sure the baby could breathe.  She kept burying the baby's
nose in her breast.  I kept tilting the baby's head back a little and
explaining that he was not able to breathe with his nose buried, and she
kept pushing it right back in again till he couldn't breathe.  I finally
got her to keep her finger pressed on the breast at the baby's nose so he
could breathe.  Not ideal, but the right thing for this mother.

-Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC

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