#1: At hair dresser yesterday, I inquired about processors used to
straighten hair vs those used to curl hair.  She said neither would be a
problem for a breastfeeding mother; once in a while, she says the odor
turns pregnant women green and their stomachs object!  HOWEVER, lye is one
of the elements used to STRAIGHTEN HAIR and it has to be left on LONGER
than the same substance in combo with other things to curl hair.  Also, if
it is left on too long, or the hair gets TWO applications (as in
overlapping), it will break off.  ACK!  Very powerful stuff, obviously.
(I learned more about hair perming than I wanted to know--but she is saving
me bags of it, as slugs don't like human hair!  Yippee--another way to keep
my garden goodies safe!)  :-)

#2: I find it odd to call suck training what happens when someone slides a
finger into the baby's mouth and he/she sucks.  Isn't she BORN to suck? If
that is the case, why do we call that reaction suck training? Who exactly
is training whom?  It seems we are simply triggering the response we want
to see on the breast when it has not yet been triggered there.  I do not
see this as suck training and do not think it should be called that.  It
gives the uninformed public the impression that we are doing something that
should be occurring in our absence.  So we have to encourage the baby to
suck when put to breast and one way is to slide a finger in to trigger the
response.  Ok.  But I find that very hard to see as training of any
kind....

gotta jump down; am breathless....

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