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>Date: 09 Feb 95 18:24:39 EST
>From: Melissa Vickers <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "INTERNET:[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Cc: Debby Boehle <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: tonic bite
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>Hi Debby and Kathleen,
>Tonic bite, huh? I don't know that much about that but one thing that raises a
>red flag in my own mind is the playtex nurser. That thing--you know, most like
>mom???--is SO SHORT with nothing to keep the mouth open that it teaches a
>susceptible baby to clamp on anything short to keep it in place. Great if it is
>the rubber nipple, but painful if it is mom and the end of her nipple! Perhaps
>some massage of gums, or jaw before nursing, and using the dancer hand hold to
>hold baby to breast might help. You don't say how old baby is, but a small baby
>might do better in football or cross cradle so mom has control over baby's
head.
>If it is an older baby, could teething be a factor since it is late in the
>feeding?
>Just from the info you told us, if I had to guess anything, I would suspect
this
>may be a case of a baby just trying to put the breast nipple in the same place
>as the playtex nipple and holding it there. If she  can get mouth open wider,
>that may solve the problem.
>Kathleen--I don't know if I am sending this to Debby right or not. I tried to
>email somebody on Prodigy last night--Cathy Kaiser, who is a leader in TN who
>was on P when I was as a LA. She wrote a nice welcome to TN letter
yesterday and
>said she was still on P but didn't give her id so I tried the one on the old p
>directory. It didn't work. I may not be sending it right. Can you make sure
>Debby got this or Debby, let me know if you did??
>Thanks, and good luck.
>LLLove, Melissa
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