We did use the 5Ss to good effect with one child.  My second baby had to
contend with a fairly strong letdown, so wasn't happy to comfort nurse the
first few months.  If I tried to just keep latching her on over and over
again, she would end up spitting up milk - she never spit up otherwise.  We
had tried one or two of the Ss on their own, but it wasn't until we watched
the video and got 4 or 5 of them going that we were able to reliably comfort
her.  As she grew, she needed fewer at once, and did learn to comfort nurse
as she got more control and my letdown settled down.  I was very pleased
when she learned to comfort nurse, as that had been an important part of
parenting my first baby, but the 5 Ss helped fill in the gap until about 4
months.

I think as a soothing technique within a lifestyle that encourages
mother-baby contact and responsiveness to feeding cues, it can be perfectly
healthful.  Many "LLL mothers" are using it alongside sharing sleep,
habitual babywearing, minimum mother-baby separation, and no clock-watching
for nursing.  In that case it adds another tool to the toolbox, rather than
substituting for the closeness and breastfeeding that should be the first
line methods of baby comfort.

-Rosemary McNaughton
LLL Leader
Northampton, MA

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Lynn Carter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I find myself wondering what was going on at home during the time interval
> when they weren't doing the 5Ss, because that seems like an awful lot of
> crying in those "normal" infants.  My first thought is that it looks like
> the 5Ss can't "put out fires" but maybe LLL moms like it so much because
> they are slinging and nursing anyway, and 5Ss help them get over bumps
> sometimes?  Or maybe because it helps them feel like they are doing
> something productive to help?
>
> Lynn
> LLL MO USA
>
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