I won't elaborate on Barbara Ash's eloquent post about babies who don't feed
normally except to say that people with a cat who stops eating are quick to
run to the vet to say:  The cat isn't eating normally!  An elderly person is
quickly worked up if they cease eating or have difficulty swallowing.  Yet
babies are denied similar attention in the belief that time will improve
their symptoms.  In the meantime, feeding (which should be robust and
pleasurable) begins to take on stressful overtones, and the relationship
between baby and feeder becomes anxious, with the potential to disrupt
attachment.  Any baby who can't feed well at breast is by definition not
normal.  If they can't even make a bottle work, they are really having a
problem.  A work up by a speech path. or an OT is, indeed, in order.

Barbara Wilson-Clay BSEd, IBCLC
Austin Lactation Associates
http://www.lactnews.com

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