<Why do babies pull on the breast while suckling, throwing their heads back
and
taking the nipple with them?>
<Could it be frustration that their is dwindling milk?>
From my observations beginning in childhood watching farm animals and pets,
baby mammals bunt their mother's dugs. Bunt and dug are words you hardly ever
hear now, beautiful old-fashioned words used by countryfolk. Lambs are
fantastic bunters, it always makes me wince because they thud their mother's
dugs/udders in such a forceful manner. It must be to elicit/stimulate more
milk.
Helen Woodman,NCT BfCounsellor, Storrington, West Sussex, UK.
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