>I haven't seen this website yet, but I want to say that when a baby is born
>nowadays, rarely is he born undrugged.  And the babies I see do nothing at
>breast no matter how long the mom leaves him skin to skin.  These babies
>need help getting their food.  In fact, three of the babies born without
>intervention have caused a lot of pain to their mother when self attaching,
>aond one mom had wounds that took months to heal, because she was letting
>baby self attach.
>
>I just don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or what.  but letting these
>babies that I see do it on their own doesn't work for the baby or the mother.


Susan, do take a look at the resources linked to, as some of your 
questions will be answered.  Drugged babies may need BN even *more* 
than non-drugged babies, but they (and their mothers who are also 
drugged) may need a little help to enable self-attachment to be 
effective.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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