Betsy writes:

This year's  keynote speaker was Jack Newman, who we all know is a wonderful 
presenter.  Several times over the course of the day, he referred back to    
finger feeding as a transition to the breast (as opposed to an alternative to  
the bottle). 


I was wondering if anyone has had a problem with a baby who was  
fingerfeeding for a while( frenotomy of posterior tongue tie delayed  to one month) and 
then seemed to connect feeding with only the hard,  though warm/human finger and 
seemed to have no interest/recognition to  actually work with a soft "thing" 
like the breast, despite fingerfeeding with  baby's face against the breast as 
much as possible. Baby has only latched once  or twice and very briefly with 
no milk transfer, and cries til the finger comes,  even if it has no FF 
'attached'. I am actually thinking of working with paced  bottlefeeding with a soft, 
slow flow nipple as an attempt to transition to the  breast.( Baby has 
rejected  breast with nipple shield as well. Nipple  is so big, and with 24 mm 
shield, just seems too much for the baby to deal with.  Mom has twice as much milk 
as anyone needs, and has tried prepumping to soften,  leaving milk there to 
firm, etc.)
Weird? Make sense?

Judy  

Judy LeVan  Fram, PT, IBCLC, LLLL, Brooklyn, NY, USA


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