><I would say without hesitation that the babies I see now do not feed like
>the babies I used to see 10-15 years ago. It is a "difference between common
>and normal" as someone on Lactnet put it brilliantly not long ago. >
>She is saying that from Oregon, and I am seeing the same thing here in
>Israel.

And I keep thinking of Ros Escott's post a few years ago on Thailand's
policy of "Three Sucklings" (early, frequent, and correctly).  In the
hospitals she observed, there weren't non-latching babies, or jaundiced
ones, or sore nipples, or crying, even tho births were medicated.  She said
the babies basically stayed attached to the breast, only occasionally coming
off to fall into a deep sleep.

She pointed out that *that's* frequent suckling, not what *we* call
frequent.

But would our babies do it, if 24 hour skin to skin were available??  What
*is* normal, anyway??
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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