Jean, Belated thanks for your post about Erb's palsy. Your post lead to a discussion about this with my mother as my brother had Erb's palsy. My mum, who had previously had large supply, weaned my brother at 9 weeks for lack of weight gain. She found this to be quite a shock as a test weigh in hospital showed a transfer of 150ml. Mum had a real lightbulb moment at your mention of a disorganised suck. She said that summed up how it was. We discussed how a disorganised suck could have lead to insufficient supply and that the initial good transfers and weight gain were a result of her good supply. Mum is much consoled by this and is very relieved that she can now see his weaning was not her "fault". She had been told by many people she was just doing too much to keep up her supply and felt very guilty about it. Although my mum was told that my brother had no pain she was also told not to hold him (apart from to feed). The surgeon recommended pinning the sleeve of the injured arm to his nightie so the arm didn't flap about. The physio quietly suggested pinning the good arm at times instead and encouraging the injured arm. Mum listened to the physio. Mum is convinced that he was in severe pain. The extended family accepted he was in pain for around 9 months. He stopped favouring the arm while crawling when he was 9 mths. He apparently spent a lot of his early life screaming. Thirty four years later and Mum is still angry about the lack of acknowledgment/acceptance/belief in the pain. Suzie Heaton Australia *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html