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Date: | Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:01:49 EDT |
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Dear Friends:
I worked with a mother today that had been battling with her new baby
for 2 weeks. She was doing everything that she had been taught to do in the
hospital: feeding on a 2-3 hour schedule, ramming the baby's head onto the
breast and holding it there tightly when the baby squirmed, and waking the baby
from a deep sleep so as not to go 'too long' between feeds. Both of them were
having a miserable time. She was getting to the point of pumping and
bottle-feeding when the baby became too upset to feed; she dreaded the nights because
they were the worst time.
The mother was expecting the baby to nurse on one side for 10-15
minutes, get burped, and then nurse the other side fo 10-15 minutes. She was
expecting this cycle to occur every 2-3 hours.
I want to share with you all the comments she made at the end of the
consultation because they summarize everything so nicely. As part of the visit,
I interview the mother at the end of our time together and ask her what she
will remember to make breastfeeding better. I write this down verbatim, and
leave her a copy. (She also gets a daily telephone call for a while, until
breastfeeding is easy and fun. So she really doesn't have to remember anything.)
This mother said:
1) "Be comfortable myself."
2) "Wait for her (i.e. the baby) to decide what to do."
3) "It takes longer than I thought it would."
4) "She has to like doing it for breastfeeding to work."
5) "She eats at her own rhythm."
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com
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