Glenni writes:


>placenta.  Baby first nursed about 2 hours after birth.

Shame about the delay...we know that the sooner a baby comes to the breast
the better for bf.

> Today Mom's nipples
>are already cracked.  Upon oral exam, baby has a disorganized suck and tends
>to clench.  We are using suck training to improve the suck, and it does seem
>to help, at least when he sucks on the finger. There is clear improvement.
>But he still wants to clench on the breast.  Nipples are average size and
>well everted.  Baby has also vomited twice. Once yesterday and once today.

A newborn baby throwing up a couple of times? But why is that considered
abnormal?  Lots of babies get rid of mucussy stuff that way...don't they?

>Yesterday they blamed it on meds in mom's milk, and today on baby being
>upset.  I think baby needs sacro-cranial therapy, but no one here does that.
>Can anyone give me any ideas  to help this baby be less tense.

Sorry,   but I don't see that a professional needs to be involved for
this....lots of skin-to-skin, bedding in, practice at feeding, relaxed
pampering of mother, gentle support and confidence building and overall
communication that she can help relax and introduce this baby to the world
herself would be another choice.

I have seen remarkable results with cranial osteopathy (as we call it here)
with upset babies, but the babies have been older. My approach would be to
go with what the mother can do hersef first.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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