I have a four day old baby who fights the breast. Bili was 10 on day 2.  He
had an ABO incompatability with a positive coombs--so peds insisted he be
supplemented. Baby also has clubbed feet. One other thing--there was lots of
molding on the head with overlapping cranial plates at the occiput. Also mom
has the type of breasts the point sharply downward with some borderline lact
of tissue bilaterally on the inferior aspect of the breast. Lots of tissue on
top. She was freely leaking colostrum.
Mom made the comment he will only take the bottle if he was flat on his back.
He seemed very  reluctant to suck, which I put down to a headache from all
the molding on his head. I thought that maybe trying to position him at the
breast was aggrivating the problem. So I decided to see if mother nature
would take over.
I had mom strip down to the waist, pushed her pants down as far as possible
(without indecent exposure) and took the clothes off the baby . We laid him
on her bare tummy and, yes, he crawled up to the breast-peacefully latched on
and nursed. Lasily, but he was latched on.
I suddenly felt like an intruder on a very intimate scene, so I left mom, dad
and baby alone for quite some time so they could have some bonding time
(thanks for the suggestion at ILCA Dr Akre) They spent over an hour together
with baby latched on the whole time.
 With strict instructions to mom and dad about safety, they will be trying
the water rebirthing technique over the weekend.
I will let you know how this case goes.