Hi,

This may have been part of "usual" strategies you have already tried, but wanted to to respond as had a similar scenario at a recent LLL meeting with a 15 month old. Initial strike coincided with an illness requiring baby to go to urgent care. By the time meeting came around a couple of weeks later, baby was still refusing to latch. Mother works full-time and baby was drinking from a bite and suck sippy cup when away and together. We surmised that the strike with sickness on top of sippy cup that was so different than breastfeeding may have impaired easy transition back to breast. Along lines of less task switching for a time leading to motor forgetting perhaps as I just read Debra Swank's piece? Fascinating for me to connect all of this as a PT! In our quest for clean clothes and surroundings with leak proof sippy cups, it seems motor learning may be suffering! So, after a couple of weeks of a sippy cup that doesn't require biting  (daycare still prefers sippy cup), baby is finally starting to latch more. Hopeful that she will continue to build as mom is wanting to continue nursing as long as possible. Hope this baby is able to start again, too! Good luck!

Allyson Wessells, PT, IBCLC 
Columbus, Ohio
www.naturalnurturinglc.com

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