Just to add more confusion to the teaching vocabulary of latch-on (a
favorite topic of mine), I have come to wonder about the wisdom of the
"tummy to tummy" advice.  In a way, that promotes over-rotation of the baby
so that baby's body is oriented towards the mother's like the two sides of
an H.  What I like to teach is that bottom shoulder, bottom hip, bottom knee
of the baby should be touching mothers body when baby is in cradle or
side-lying.  The top shoulder, hip and knee are slightly angled away, so the
two bodies are oriented like the sides of a V.  This prevents the baby and
mother from losing their view of one another.  Mother's supporting (cradling
arm) is thus scooping baby close and providing a shelf that baby rests on,
so she is not really lifting the baby, but rather is hugging baby in along
the bottom side of his body.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BS, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates
LactNews Press
www.lactnews.com

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