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Date: | Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:21:28 -0500 |
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Thank you, Jean, for bringing up probably the most important fact when
working with feeding issues. Breastfeeding (and any other form of
feeding/eating) is first and foremost supposed to be pleasant and enjoyable for
both the feedee (baby) and the feeder (mom). If either or both are indicating
either verbally or thru body language that the feeding is NOT pleasant and
enjoyable, then one must help the mother figure out why and work with her to
come up with an alternate feeding plan that is both enjoyable and pleasant for
both while working on exclusive breastfeeding as much as possible within her
reality.
One of the main reasons I do what I do for a living is because I LOVE to eat.
Eating is an art form and food is a religion! And I want to help babies and
moms to feel this way about the eating process. And like you, Jean, I know I
have issues about eating/food (not all of them healthy!) that were developed
during my early (formula/bottle-fed) infancy.
One of the most helpful inservices I ever offered the staff, I did in conjunction
with our therapists. We had the nurses feed each other with the squirt-top
sport bottles. The feedee had to sit on her hands while being fed by her
partner to prevent her from instinctively pushing the bottle away. She had to
act like a baby would be able to react to obnoxious feeding stimuli. The
nurses talked about that inservice for weeks and I have seen some practice
changes in some of the staff - they've gotten more "sympathetic" to the
baby's plight.
Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL USA
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