Subject: Difficulty Breastfeeding Baby and/or Mother may have physical challenges that make it hard to learn to nurse. Examples include: tongue-tie, short tongue, tongue-sucking, flat nipples, inverted nipples, short-shanked nipples, etc. Cheryl Muller RNC IBCLC > Question - I had a Mom who delivered without any medication or other intervention, but her baby would not latch. Any other reasons why this would occur besides medication and birth trauma? > *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html