My own opinion of the picture of three nurses helping a mother by pushing
her baby into the breast is that they are practically guaranteeing that the
baby will NOT breastfeed.  How would you feel if someone shoved and then
held your face into something soft and cushy so that you couldn't breathe?

I suggest that whoever sees this happening offer to demonstrate its effect
on the nurse doing it!  Maybe when she comes up gasping for air, it will
have an impact on her re: the need to get more education.

Sorry to sound put off, but I see the results of such NONeducation,
NONhelpful behavioar every day! I love hleping breastfeeding mothers and
babies but I hate seeing how babies are scared to death of breastfeeding
and their mothers as a result of such action.




Def. of LC service: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]
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