Dear Friends: Jean brings up an important point about the TMJ. Your jaw moves in two directions: you can jut your jaw forward, or drop it down. These are very complex actions that are guided by a complex interaction of nerves and muscles. Operative delivery, head pulling, induction.........all these increase the normal forces on an infants' head, which can be thought of as a plastic bag full of jello with islands of cardboard resting on top of the cardboard. Pretty soft. The structures of a baby's head, neck and throat can be easily damaged, with a subsequent negative impact on bf. Babies weren't meant to be pulled out by their heads; they were meant to be pushed out. Damage in this area can be reduced or resolved by CST, by chiropratic, by time, by OT or speech/language specialists with their techniques. warmly, Nikki Lee RN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty, Union Institute and University Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human Lactation Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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