>I understand the need to create a decent seal, but can't this be done with
lips that aren't completely rolled outward?
I'd say the lips aren't important in the least. Provided:
1. there's good milk transfer
2. the mother's comfortable (nipples and body)
3. the baby's comfortable.
I once tried to find experienced mothers with newborns so I could film their
positioning. In my ignorance, I gave up because they all had terrible
positions, mouth included. In fact, of course, I was seeing the wide range
of normal - children and mothers compensating brilliantly for mouth
variations, milk variations, body variations.
My favorite was the woman who brought her fat-as-a-sausage baby to me
because he rolled his lower lip in. "Is he thriving?" "Yes." "Are you
having any discomfort at all?" "No." "Well then it doesn't matter." "Yes,
but the books all show that lower lip rolled out, and I can't get him to
roll it out." "Is he thriving?" "Yes." "Are you having any discomfort?"
"No." "Well then it doesn't matter." I never fully convinced her. As a
toddler, he was still nursing, still fat as a sausage, still rolling his
lower lip in.
Of course, if it's a problem, then it's a problem. But take a look at how
we all hold our pens, and how we're *supposed* to hold them.. My 4th grade
teacher could never get me to do it "right", but 50 years later it's still
working for me. As Catherine Watson Genna says, "We don't have to be
perfect, we just have to be good enough."
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY USA
www.normalfed.com
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