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Jan Barger <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:38:56 -0400
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Pam,

Thanks for your excellent suggestion.....

<< IF the mother can be persuaded to "wear" the baby for a time, and feed
 every time s/he squeaks (for food AND comfort and any-old-time snackies,
 even a minute or two very often, and GET RID OF the dummy! and sleep with
 the baby - all the ideas you'd use for a potential nursing strike) then I've
 found that (1) the baby can be coaxed back to using the breast for
 comfort-sucking, (2) frequent drainage increases breastmilk production and
 (3) the baby's rate of weight gain increases, a little the first week, a lot
 the second week.  The crunch here is persuading the mother ....
  >>

Remember, here we are talking about the Ezzo mom.  I can't BELIEVE Babywise
hit Zimbabwe!  Oh NO!!  I don't really believe in censorship, but there's a
certain bookburning I would like to hold.....

Jan Barger

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