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The photography and moms and babes are beautiful!
Now that I've been consistently communicating to mothers how to let their
babies latch, (instead of perceiving a lack of enough body contact myself, and
sometimes correcting it by moving the baby closer myself, or telling them
mother to hug the baby in closer) I noticed an interesting difference between
three of the photos.
_http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4084370_
(http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4084370)
The two involved in illustrating "be patient..." show the baby in an
underarm hold without the baby's chest touching the breast. The finer print tells
to have nose opposite nipple and head tilted back. Great. That part is okay.
But without the chest touching the breast the new baby still doesn't _know_
where the breast is. So the next photo instructs "speed..." and to bring the
baby towards the breast quickly. This was the old way I suggested about five
years ago. But look at that speed photo! It has the right components.
I have found almost without fail (one baby still didn't open wide and was
identified as having issues with tongue thrust and a small bubble palate) the
mothers exclaim, "This is the widest s/he had ever opened!" when they place
the baby on their chests skin to skin, baby's chest against side of breast,
and the baby's mouth close to the nipple. With that chest contact and the
chin and lower lip against the breast near the nipple they open with a huge gape
over and over until they get the breast into their mouths -- with perhaps a
gentle hugging in closer contributed by mom. It _is_ a gentle way, and I
have to admit that I'd grown tired of hearing some moms says that the nurse
jammed the baby onto her breast or the nurse buried the baby into her breast.
Yes, we do educate our staff, but....
So the third photo that says "speed..." actually shows decent contact with
the baby's chest against the breast and if you take away the 'speed" and "move
quickly" instructions, it serves as an excellent illustration for what
works. I showed this photo to a nurse yesterday without the caption or
instructions and she exclaimed, "Why that's a perfect position and latch. What a great
photo."
Mardrey Swenson
New Hampshire USA
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