Back again, this time after a memory crash apparently unrelated to my
previous virus.  Yikes!

My favorite "aggressive non-nurser" was the little girl who held out for
about 5 weeks, perhaps due to deep suctioning at birth.  Her father finally
sat her on his knee and said, "Look, Emily, the whole world sucks.  There's
no reason you can't."  A few days later, she started nursing.  Basically,
though, her mom just kept offering, with and without a nipple shield.  The
shield ended up being something of a transition tool, used here and there
for a couple days.

Then there was the mom who called after 4 weeks of struggle and
not-very-nutritive use of a shield, to tell me her cat died.  I'd been
struggling right along with her, and just didn't think I could handle
helping her through a "death in the family" on top of everything else.  "Oh,
and Bruce started nursing."  Golly gee, why did she have to tell me about
the cat first??  But it seems she sat down in the bathroom and offered her
breast for the 900th time.  He latched on... and that was that.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY

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