Welcome aboard Lactnet Susie, and best wishes about your exam.

Others will have much more to add, but two things struck me. First,
whatever method of feeding is going on, it's important not to make the
breast a battleground, for that leads to greater and greater aversion by
the baby.

If all feedings can be done with as much skin to skin and en face
position as possible, and actual latching never attempted while the baby
is ravenous or fussy, that might go a long way toward reversing the
aversion.

Also, co-bathing, and just "hanging out" near mom's chest with expressed
milk dripping to tantalize sense of smell, taste and touch, with soft
sounds and loving eyes, to round out the palette of sensory stimuli.

<Mum had
trouble bfing 1st 2 babies, stopped after a few months, they both later
on
had some speech problems.>

Second, this makes me wonder about the possibility of a hard to recognize
degree of tongue tie, or short tongue running in the family.

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA

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