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Date: | Thu, 18 May 2006 20:40:47 -0400 |
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Dear all:
I think one of the hardest things to determine is when to use our hands and when not to use our
hands. Using our hands is such a right brain activity and mothers are relying more on right brain
activity than left brain activity. Talking someone through a latch with all the intellectual
descriptions of why it is important is so much more left brain. Sometimes it seems that the only
way to get the information across is just to show it and have a woman feel it rather than think it.
On the other hand, I had such a difficult nonlatching, kvetchy, short fused baby today who
demonstrated so clearly that she really just wanted to be in control of the situation. All the
devices and interventions, - the correct neck extended nose to nipple positioning with a nipple
tilt, the nipple shield, the tube, the tight breast sandwich just made her mad. What made her
happy was being stripped down to her diaper, left alone on mom's chest to bob her own way to
the breast and self attach. After 10 days of barely latching and definitely not swallowing, she got
on and swallowed beautifully in a Rebecca Glover style dangerously dangling cradle hold. Even
pushing her to the breast on her back was enough to set her off. The poor thing had vomited up
huge quantities of blood right after birth and although the mother had no recollection of her
having been deep suctioned, I suspect that might have happened at some point. She certainly
showed us what she really needed.
Best regards, Susan Burger
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