Boy, there's a phrase that pushes my buttons every time <g>:  "using her for
a pacifier"!!  AARRGG!!  I tell my clients that report such a comment to me
that pacifiers were invented to replace mothers, not the other way around.
Mothers came FIRST; pacifiers came afterwards, as a replacement for the
world's first, original pacifier.  Mothers don't look like pacifers;
pacifiers look like mothers.  Babies don't use you AS a pacifier; you ARE a
pacifier....
Regina Roig Lane BS IBCLC feeling grumpy at Miami-Dade County WIC/Nutrition

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Calandro [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 12:22 AM
> Subject:      Using Mom as a Pacifier
>
> By the next morning baby had nursed all night, and the nurses had told mom
> countless times that he was just using her for a pacifier. In fact one
> nurse had brought in a pacifier and encouraged her to use it.  Mom was
> tired and said she felt like she might use it.  I encouraged her that baby
> really needed her milk to come in quickly, for some reason known only to
> him and God.  So we made a note for the crib saying NO PACIFIERS, and she
> decided to believe me and her baby.

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