I'd love to have a Lactessa but haven't felt rich enough, or generous
enough, to buy one for my hospital.

Necessity is the mother of invention.  People are always forgetting plush
toys at the hospital - babies are given them at birth and sometimes you
can't even find the baby in the cot, for all the bears, bunnies, dolls, etc.
I adopted a teddy bear from the pool of left animals.  Could have taken a
giraffe but the anatomy was even more wrong!

Now I can be seen regularly, showing groups of mothers how to aim their
breast for a good asymmetric latch, using the teddy bear's snout.  It works
fine for showing positioning, actually.  Front-to-front is the same whether
you use a doll or a bear.  I can even make it 'root' and position itself,
with one hand, while I hold my beloved Childbirth Graphics breast model with
the other.  To show how the baby needs to open wide, I do the big 'ahhhh'
myself, at the breast model.  I think it gets the point across just fine.

I am one of those people who can't figure out how, not to mention why, to
use a 'BF pillow' except with twins, and even then my skills are marginal.
But then, I live in a country where the only item of BF clothing anyone
owns, is a bra with flaps.  We just wear regular old civilian attire and
open up whatever we have to, to feed the baby.  I do use pillows, liberally
and as needed.  But I find it is preferable to have a variety of pillows in
different sizes to meet different needs.  I always place the pillow under
mother's arm, which is holding baby.  Mothers usually try to hold the
pillow, with baby on it, when they start out.  This just looks all wrong to
me.  I've never seen a rationale for the u-shaped pillow for singletons, nor
instructions for their use.  Just lots and lots of ads for them, and to my
mind most are overpriced.

Rachel Myr
keeping it as simple as possible in Kristiansand, Norway

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