>Norma wrote......I have always wondered if the reason (instinct?) that 
initially drives
>mothers to breastfeed isn't extremely simple.
>
>Baby cries with open mouth.
>Mother disturbed by baby's cries.
>Mother inserts breast into baby's mouth.
>
>Silence!
>
>And after that comes all the bonding and love and so on...
>Breastfeeding as nutrition and medicine?
>Sure, but that is incidental :)
>
>norma
>Seems like it would be simple - but sometimes new moms really confound me! 
I had one the other day that I left for a few minutes with her baby S2S right 
after birth, and came back to find the baby sucking away - on mom's finger! 
she said - I had to get him to stop crying.   Go figure.... Deb Ray
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