Lyn said:  I would use cobathing a lot more if people
(in general) were more receptive to it. I find that i
often have to pick and
choose the "type" of couple that I suggest it to as
some look at me as if I'm
crazy!
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by co-bathing do you mean just taking a calm bath with
the baby?

I'm hearing a lot of this "fight to get the baby to
latch" on the due-date list I'm on as the first babies
are coming- many with inductions and planned
c-sections.  My new little one is a taster/sampler
quite often, as was his sister so I'm feeling very
deeply what these babies and mothers are going
through.    I'm fearing that some of these cases of
breast-refusal are created, not born, as a result of
insensitivity to the baby's needs in the first day or
two, and then again with another chance when the milk
comes in and overwhelms the baby.  I can see how much
Benno has needed time to adjust to my vast flow.

poor guy, being a point of observation for me.  :-)

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Kate Hallberg, mom to Ursula (6!), Sage (3) and Benno (12-31-00) http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/

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