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Rachelle Lessen <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 20 Nov 1998 08:17:27 -0500
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Has anybody ever had a mother breastfeed  lying on her back with her
baby on her tummy?  What I had in mind is the scenes of self-attachment
after birth when the baby crawls up to the breast and latches on.

I have a mother whose baby had surgery last week for a
myelomeningocele.  He has an incision across his lower back.  Mom is
using the cross cradle position with a nursing pillow but the baby's
incision is not healing well.  He's supposed to be positioned on his
stomach all the time and Dad felt that the cross cradle position was
putting too much pressure on his back.

Can the baby latch on and get enough milk by lying on top of mom?

Thanks for suggestions.

Rachelle Lessen, RD, IBCLC
Philadelphia, PA   USA                     mailto:[log in to unmask]

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