On Monday, January 17, 2005, at 06:04 PM, LACTNET automatic digest 
system wrote:

> My questions are:  What can we expect from not having latched at all 
> for the
> first 5 days?

I have just finished working with a mom like this, who first nursed 
around 7 days pp.  She pumped q3hrs for a couple week and babe would 
occasionally nurse, with a shield.  By 5 or 6 weeks, they stopped using 
formula,  maybe another week before she was fully breastfeeding, and now 
at ten weeks the shield is not needed.  This was a mom with big, flat, 
non-elastic nipples and a baby with a receding chin, and they still 
managed it.  So I'm betting that your mom will be all set within a 
matter of a couple weeks.

YMMV, but in my experience five days is very overcome-able.   
Congratulations to both of you :)

Lynn
Kirksville, MO

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