Dear Friends:
    In my capacity as a mother-baby nurse for an agency, I get to see a lot
of good breastfeeding. This is SO refreshing, because many of us don't see
enough of that in our work as breastfeeding helpers.
    Today I saw a young woman is living home with her mother and on day 4,
the baby is having yellow, seedy stools, transferred 1.7 ounces in a short time
at breast, and is nearly 2 ounces over discharge weight....in just 2 days at
home.
    I love it!
    And I really love being able to encourage her and tell her what a great
job she is doing and talk about safe co-sleeping and carrying the baby as much
as she wants (which is a lot) and hope that she breastfeeds exclusively for at
least 6 months and for at least a year or more thereafter. And I really love
seeing her soak up my words and and stare at her new baby with such love and
fascination.
    I wish it could be like this most of the time.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation
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