Dear Friends:
 
I worked with a mother in the first week postpartum and she and her baby  got 
to be breastfeeding very well.
 
3 weeks later she called me for blisters (that she described as  
blebs.....she diagnosed herself based on internet research) and I couldn't  figure out 
from what she told me what was going on. We made another visit  together.
 
Turns out that she had started using a stiff nursing pillow in her nursing  
glider AFTER she had gotten to good breastfeeding (based on the encouragement  
from girlfriends)..........the baby was now big enough that she couldn't get a 
 deep latch. The mother was stretching her breast up to the baby, and the  
blisters were actually the result of suction (not blebs).
 
It took an hour to wean this mother off the pillow. She had latched onto  the 
pillow as an essential tool. First I suggested that she take her arm out  
from under her baby, so the baby was resting on the pillow without any  
additional height. That worked for a while.
 
I sat on the floor below her, and described what I was seeing while the  baby 
fed. I described how the baby's head was turned by resting on the pillow so  
that a deep latch wasn't possible. We talked, she nursed, we sat in silence 
for  a while. Meanwhile, she was in some pain.
 
After a while, she agreed to try bf without the pillow............the baby  
immediately moved into that 45-degree angle position across her lap as so  
beautifully shown by Tina Smillie and Kittie Frantz in the Baby-Dance DVD, and  
the mother was instantly pain free.
 
A very different sort of consult.
 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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