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There are still many midwives who push babies onto the breast but in Hobart
(Tasmania, Australia) we teach midwives to sit on their hands and watch the mother after
having gone through attachment with the mother with a doll.
This allows the mother to learn the steps to attachment as she can logically see that if the
breast is shaped to fit the baby's mouth and she points the nipple to the nose and rubs
the areola on the her baby's bottom lip, that when she sees the bottom lip turned down,
the tongue forward and the mouth wide open then she needs to push her baby towrads
her breast quickly before the baby's mouth shuts.
This is exactly what the midwife does when she puts the baby on the breast so it is just a
matter of them recognising how they attach the baby and transfer that to the mother. the
teaching is then checked by getting the mother to recite what she did while the midwife
writes it down in the mother's words.
The technique is on The video "Mother and Baby ...getting it right. Positioning and
Attachment"

Sue

Sue Cox, Midwife, IBCLC. Author" Breastfeeding I Can Do That"
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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