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  The baby simply could not drain the breast enough to give any
 > comfort so she enlisted her husband.  He "nursed" four times a day for two
 > days until the problem was gone
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(Sorry to be late responding to this one but my AOL crashed....)

This really isn't such a wild idea -- at least not to me.  Over eighteen years
ago when I had my first child, my (then) 88 year old grandmother (emigrant
from Hungary) told me it was the best way to relieve engorgement and how
through the course of several children my grandfather had been able to help
her out in just such a way.  (They were already in the US when she gave birth
and nursed.)

I guess I thought it was a standard "remedy". :-)

Warmly,
Sheila Angalet
Edison, NJ