>Who says people don't "remember" their births?

A few times when I was nursing my babies really drowsily, I'd have this
sudden feeling of very thick fringe - thumb-thick - between my fingers.  It
was a very clear sensation, and I had never felt it before.  My mother
tells me I did indeed have a fringed blanket as a baby.  The fringe, of
course, would have been as thick as my fingers.  Since those adult nursing
experiences, I've felt that thick fringe a few other times, always when
very drowsy and always when feeling especially happy and relaxed (on
vacation at a beloved spot, for instance).  I was breastfed.

I'd probably have discounted my hunch, except that a client who was nursed
to age 2 herself was having trouble nursing her premie.  They limped
through the first month or so.  Then the first time he latched on and
nursed really well, she almost gasped, thinking, "*I* did this!" though
she'd had no prior memory of nursing.

So now I'm fully prepared to believe that powerful memories of being nursed
may be deeply embedded in us.  What if those powerful memories are of force
and rubber and isolation?

But these are the only two stories I've ever heard.  Does anyone have others?

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY