Hi,  I'm Judie Zersen LLLL IBCLC CLE. I have been lurking since Aug 95.
Since receiving my certification in 85 I have been in private practice
here in the San Pedro, Ca.  My children are Todd, 29, born in Anchorage,
Bridgetta, 25, born in Charleston SC, and Aaron 21 born in Winter Park
Fl.  LLL all the way!

I had the priviledge of talking to my grandmother extensively about the
way she raised her kids at the turn to the century.  So when the subject
came up here on LACTNET about the pacifiers for breastfed babies, I
remembered what my grandmother told me she did for her fussy babies.

She called them her  "Sugar Tit's".  She said she would take a nice clean
thin piece of white cotton cloth and put a piece of bread in it with a
little sugar or honey and  tie it up with string.  Then be sure to make
it plenty good sized so it would last all day.  She said to then dip it
in expressed breast milk or water and let the baby suck on it so you
could get work done or a long day of travel by horse and buggie or wagon.

( I imagine the babies had to really open their mouth plenty wide to get
all that tit in his mouth and then work on elongating it to fit his mouth
just right.) She  would prepare a fresh one every day.

I remember her saying about any fussy baby that she had to endure,  "
Somebody give that kid a Sugar Tit!"

Of course the everybody laughed and were a little embarrassed too.

She had a 40 acre farm and 9 children, all now aged between 77 to 93.
The children have been strong and healthy with high IQ's and a family
that has very close.
By the way she was a failure to thrive baby.  She only weighed 12# at a
year old.  Her grandfather got her to start gaining wt by giving her
scraped raw apples.

I love my time with ya'll.  Thanks.

Judie Lewis Zersen,

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