Dear all:
I think one of the hardest things to determine is when to use our hands and when not to use our 
hands.  Using our hands is such a right brain activity and mothers are relying more on right brain 
activity than left brain activity.  Talking someone through a latch with all the intellectual 
descriptions of why it is important is so much more left brain.  Sometimes it seems that the only 
way to get the information across is just to show it and have a woman feel it rather than think it.

On the other hand, I had such a difficult nonlatching, kvetchy, short fused baby today who 
demonstrated so clearly that she really just wanted to be in control of the situation.  All the 
devices and interventions, - the correct neck extended nose to nipple positioning with a nipple 
tilt, the nipple shield, the tube, the tight breast sandwich just made her mad.  What made her 
happy was being stripped down to her diaper, left alone on mom's chest to bob her own way to 
the breast and self attach.  After 10 days of barely latching and definitely not swallowing, she got 
on and swallowed beautifully in a Rebecca Glover style dangerously dangling cradle hold.  Even 
pushing her to the breast on her back was enough to set her off. The poor thing had vomited up 
huge quantities of blood right after birth and although the mother had no recollection of her 
having been deep suctioned, I suspect that might have happened at some point.  She certainly 
showed us what she really needed.

Best regards, Susan Burger

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