The thing is that babies can retain the instinctual behaviours associated
with what is described as "biological nurturing" for quite some time...days,
months (and in the case of some post-abuse/neglect adopted children), years.
So there is no rush if the baby is not well.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


> >I haven't seen this website yet, but I want to say that when a baby is
born
> >nowadays, rarely is he born undrugged.  And the babies I see do nothing
at
> >breast no matter how long the mom leaves him skin to skin.  These babies
> >need help getting their food.  In fact, three of the babies born without
> >intervention have caused a lot of pain to their mother when self
attaching,
> >aond one mom had wounds that took months to heal, because she was letting
> >baby self attach.

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