Nikki... I have been telling moms ever since nursing
pillows started appearing on the market that those
things are a waste of money and actually cause
problems for many MamaBaby dyads. I've seen so so so
many positioning/latch issues involving those darn
things! I try to get the point across by telling
them, "If Mother Nature thought you were going to need
a big nursing pillow like this, she would have had
your no-longer-pregnant belly morph into a big stiff
roll around your waist." LOL.
The only moms I've seen benefit from nursing pillows
were particularly large breasted women who needed both
hands to manage the breast while the baby rested on
the pillow. Even then, I encouraged them to ditch the
pillow ASAP.
I just generally despise *contraptions*. So much
wasted money... and so often an obstacle to good
MamaBaby touch.
Cee
--- Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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