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Elizabeth Brooks <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:40:30 -0400
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A well-known IBCLC stumbled upon this technique to address her own fairly
awful vasospasms.  Because it is the blood *returning* to the nipples after
a feed, through the now compressed (squashed ... flattened ... crunched ...
pick your image) blood vessels that causes the discomfort, she figured she
would just speed the process along to see if that didn't get her back to
comfort sooner.  She found it did.  Sitting around and waiting for dry heat
to do the trick was just not cutting it -- especially when she had toddlers
flying around the room.

So, she experimented with helping to "push" the blood back into the nipple.
 Imagine the kind of pressure you exert when you are trying to push a
splinter out of your finger: you are trying to create pressure from behind.
 So she began to squeeze toward her nipple, placing her fingers on the
areola and actually pretty close to the nipple base.  This is not milk
expression technique -- although milk would often come out during the
exercise.  She aid it took a while, but she quickly learned the "sweet spot"
where she was pushing blood forward rather than milk out.  She swore by the
trick.

I attended a memorable conference session at which we all tried the
technique on our own, um, teaching tools.

-- 
Liz Brooks JD IBCLC FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA

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