Hi Beth
The "dancer's hand" technique sounds worth a try for the baby with "floppy" cheeks. It seems to me that it would help this tiny baby use less effort to remain attached at breast. Do you have access to a set of instructions/photo of it?
It's a very old technique, around long before it was named in the 1980s.  I was taught it by child health nurses in Queensland in 1965, and one of the mothers I interviewed for my MA used what looks like this technique in the early 1940s, also in Queensland.

Virginia
in Brisbane, Queensland

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Beth Johnson wrote:
Subject: Small baby, floppy cheeks

....When I had the opportunity to do the supplementing I noticed that he
didn't maintain suction on the bottle nipple at all, and am wondering if
he's having the same problem at the breast (hence the slurping sound
we're hearing sometimes).  I ended up cup-feeding him instead.

He really doesn't have any meat or fat in his cheeks and I'm wondering
if that's his main difficulty.  I've seen the Dancer Hand mentioned for
cases like this, but I don't have any experience with the technique.

Any pointers?
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