Subject: Alternate massage (and long inefficient feeds and question on
breast compression)


Pamela Morrison wrote a long post describing "breast compression" and
"alternate massage". Actually, the term and concept of ":alternate massage"
goes back much further. I described it in the first edition of my book,
Successful Breastfeeding, published by a small publisher in Sydney in 1974.
It was described in the various editions that followed with another
publisher, through to the last edition in 1991. I cited a description by Sr
Mary Caritas Iffrig, a nun in Missouri, who published on it in 1969 in the
International Journal Nursing Studies. I quoted from her with permission.
The 1969 citation is the earliest source I have found, but alternate
massage could well have been practiced for years before a description was
ever published.

Virginia

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA
Ipswich, Queensland, Aust

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