Janet writes:
<< I make it very clear that she should never place her hand
on the back of the baby's head and *push* the baby into the breast.
You'd be surprised how many mothers tell me that this is what the LC at
the hospital "told" them to do. >>
Not surprised, alas. With my first the LC at the hospital told me,
literally, "You have to screw them in like a lightbulb."
Kind of awful, isn't it? No surprise that it was days more before she would
latch, and weeks before I got over the cracked nipples from teaching her that
way...
Elisheva Urbas
NYC
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