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Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:25:48 -0500 |
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Please, please, please, do not assume that a baby or child who sucks
fingers/thumb or uses a "lovey" transitional object is somehow to be pitied
because his/her mother ignored his/her sucking needs!!!!!
My daughter nursed very well, and I was always available to her. She
gained well and was (and is) very healthy. I followed her lead, learned to
respond to her cues, and most of all held her/rocked her/nursed her whenever
and WHERE EVER. She sucked her thumb after nursing for hours. She loved the
softness of the blanket that I covered her with. I did not interrupt her
thumbsucking/lovey routines in order to put myself into the picture. She is
now, at three years old, a happy, contented, verbal, healthy, and secure
child-all of the things that one hopes for in a securely attached child. She
does not mistake her thumb or her blanket for her mother.
Respectfully,
Lisa Jones, LLLL Wellington FL
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