>The situation with a mother of twins who has no milk supply and is upset
>that her babies will not suckle at the breast, puzzles me.  She does not
>want the breast to be associated with food.


It is unusual, isn't it?

And yet no 'odder' than the mothers many of us hear from every day 
who  *only* want the breast associated with food, and want to know 
how to stop the baby 'just sucking for comfort', and the mothers who 
have been told not to let their babies fall asleep at the breast 
because they will get 'the wrong asociations.'

Either position is not seeing it from the baby's point of view, and 
fails to appreciate that bf is a  multi-sided  relationship 
consisting of a mother, her baby, plus food, drink and comfort.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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