Thank you, Lisa Weinshenker and Sue Jacoby, for your reality checks! I am
grieved that there are mothers I meet who express "nipple shield guilt" and
have been told they had better get their babies off the shield or they will
lose their supply. What a confusion of correlation and causation! It seems
to me that the babies who are least able to feed (or even pretend to feed)
without a nipple shield will indeed have the mothers who get blamed for not
weaning them off the shield in time to preserve supply. So the mother gets
blamed, instead of the practitioners who fail to assess, diagnose, and
treat various conditions compromising suck. Mothers are guilty until proven
innocent -- often decades later, when I am showing a grandmother the tongue
restrictions her daughter and grandchild share :^( .

Ruth
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Ruth Piatak, BA, MS, LLLL, IBCLC
Tulsa, Oklahoma
214-886-1218
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