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Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Jennifer -

 

What a start!  It sounds to me like a roaring success.  My first thought
when you asked how a properly-fitted shield should look was that what
matters is how it sounds.  If a baby is swallowing vigorously on a fully
comfortable breast then the shield is the right size, in the right place,
with the baby using it the right way.  Period.  What else could possibly
matter?  This profession is way more art than science; whatever works,
whether it works for any other LC or any other baby, is right.

 

I love the fact that you started mother and baby in Biological Nurturing
(laid back position) well before he was ready to eat.  I think some of the
failures we see with it are from our attempt to rush a mother and baby into
it as if it were a new position instead of a whole mothering approach.  

 

And just a couple weeks ago I discovered a section on Suzanne Colson's DVD
that I had never seen before.  She talks at length about the value of
nursing a baby *in his sleep*.  Often a baby placed  right near the nipple
while asleep will nurse without ever waking up.  That laid-back position
makes it possible for him to nurse without making much effort and the fact
that he's asleep, she says, can result in an effective pain-free nursing
even when there are flat nipples, painful nipples, a non-latching baby, all
sorts of issues that can be a problem while he's awake and using more than
just instinct.  Drowsy helps a lot too, of course, and that's what you used.
But she says there's no need to wait for a baby to waken before offering the
breast.  How cool is that?

 

Sounds like a great start to a great career.  Uncertainty is part of the
game.

 

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL   Ithaca, NY  USA

 

 

 

 

 

 


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