<the mom with a nipple/areolar complex
variation that defies latch in spite of all the usual
remedies/tricks/interventions,>

What an expressive, self explanatory gem of a phrase!
Right up there with "oroboobular disproportion"!

"Defies" is sometimes the operative word. And hospital personnel are
right there "where the rubber meets the road", (as the automotive folks
say), often working against the clock with a barely recovered mother (and
possibly baby) soon to be discharged.

Much as I hate to hear hospital horror stories from WIC moms and then
have to help mom "fix" the breastfeeding, I saw the other side of the
coin in 24 years of hospital OB nursing. Personnel there are truly "in
the trenches", not always free to do what we here might think is
theoretically best.

I have to admit, most times they are probably only trying to find the
surest way to invoke Rule #1, the best way they know how. Problem is,
there doesn't seem to be enough know-how!

All  this sharing and problem solving discussed on Lactnet is helping
provide more of that all the time. Vive l'Lactnet!

Jean
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K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC
Dayton, Ohio USA


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