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Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Sep 2014 23:48:52 +0200
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The most violently aversive behavior in my experience comes in the
aftermath of a postpartum stay where the staff are playing 'let's see
who can latch the baby on the breast first' and use every bad trick in
the book (shoving baby's head, stuffing the breast in baby's mouth,
pressing baby's back, etc) to try to win the prize. I'm happy to say I
see less of this at my own unit nowadays but I do still hear far too
many reports from mothers that this counterproductive strategy is
still in use here in Norway. It can take weeks before the baby can be
near a breast without signs of distress.
The next most common cause seen in my own practice is oversupply. It
is exacerbated in those cases where the mother has been advised that
her baby is likely unhappy at the breast because 'the milk doesn't
come fast enough' or 'there isn't enough milk' so she has been
dutifully expressing by pump to try to rectify things. When the
diagnosis is completely wrong, the treatment can't possibly make
things right, and it makes BF seem like something really difficult, if
not impossible, to fix when something isn't working. These cases can
take time to resolve too. I long for the day when there is an
awareness that there is such a thing as too much milk.
Both of these kinds of aversion respond really well to laid-back
breastfeeding, on a soft pliable breast. It rarely takes more than a
few occasions before the baby starts feeding and I far prefer to have
mother and baby with as little clothing on as possible.
Then there is the baby's sudden surprise and frustration when breasts
go from floppy to tense around day 3 - tenderizing the breast with RPS
to make it more user-friendly and using a laid-back position work
really well for those cases too.
Rachel Myr
trying to stay laid back in Kristiansand, Norway

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