Yes, I would suggest that there is nothing that the mum needs to do to try to "fix" things but that just giving her baby the closeness and comfort that he so obviously needs right now will allow things to work out on their own and healthily for the littleone. "This too shall pass" is a good mantra!
Karleen Gribble
Australia

On 07/12/2011, at 11:34 PM, heather wrote:

>> I have permission to post:  A G3,P3 mom with a 10 mo old with cranial
>> stenosis.  He recently had surgery to defuse the cranial plates.  He is
>> exclusively bf, gets 3 meals of solid foods, and is small for age but
>> typical compared to genetic size of parent, and to growth patterns of his
>> siblings.  The problem now is that even after 4 wk surgery, he is very
>> clingy, nurses off and on all night so that mom is both sore and
>> exhausted.  She tried wearing a sports bra to bed after his last nursing,
>> but he just cries.  He won't go down for naps alone in his bed.
> 

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