A key to remind us all in considering the likelihood of sore nipples is
that breastfeeding is a two-person activity.  The mother may have breastfed
SEVERAL babies. The new baby, however, is still learning.  This may help
account for several women's experiences that in spite of THEIR experience,
they still got sore. But they were not the only ones involved in the
breastfeeding now current.

Babies must learn to work with mothers just as surely as their mothers must
learn to work with them.  When that teamwork is still being refined, some
occasional "stepping on of toes, as in learning to dance with a new
partner" (an analogy I love because I think it is so relevant) is going to
occur.

Am off the soapbox; need oxygen...  :-)




Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]
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