Dear Folks: This in response to Kathy Dettwyler's comment ".....foramina that they pass through are holes in hard bone, not squishable." Babies don't have hard head bones. Calcification starts after birth; this is a protective mechanism that keeps baby's heads relatively soft so they can get out of the birth canal. Infant head bones can and do over-ride each other. The individual bones themselves can also be terribly deformed by birth, vacuum, forceps, and long hours spent lying in the same position. These 5 bony plates that become the bones are quite squishable. And the impact on breastfeeding of this squishing can be enormous. Warmly, Nikki Lee *********************************************** 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