Dear Friends:
    Sometimes being a little dramatic can help a brand-new mother understand
why her newborn wants to be at breast so much.
    Ask her how the baby was feeding inside, through the cord. Every second
of every minute of every hour of every day, right? For the whole 9-10 months
of gestation.
    Now in the outside world, Baby cries. Mom thinks, "I just fed you an hour
ago." Baby is thinking, "It's been a whole hour since I ate anything!" When I
do this, I act out the parts of the exasperated mom and the starving baby. If
the mom thinks for a minute, then chuckles, she gets it.
    Warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MSN, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CIMI, CSTP
Elkins Park (a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; northeastern USA)
supporter of the WHO Code and the Mother Friendly Childbirth Initiative

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