Anne ! You have taken my simple analogy and blown it up
in to something FAB - U - LOUS !!!! I LOVE IT !!!
PERMISSION GRANTED FOR EVERYONE TO USE MY HALF
of the analogy !!!
--Kathy
Katherine Koncelik, CPD, CLC
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On Nov 3, 2013, at 7:47 AM, Duret, Anne wrote:
> Kathy says:
> <the analogy I use for a tongue tie
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> Imagine high school gym class and it's time
> for the pesky President's Physical Fitness test.
> And just as you are about to set out to run the
> track, your gym teacher says, wait ! And she
> ties your sneakers together !!
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> Sure you can still move, but it will take all of this period and
> most of the next just to make it around the track !
> And because its sooooo tiring to "shuffle" around the
> track you will stop often to rest and perhaps take a
> a nap or two.
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> I imagine that's what it must be like to breastfeed with a tongue
> tie.>
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> I love this and hope you will give us permission to use it! I would
> even take it a step farther and say something like this,
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> Now imagine that we have invited a group of doctors to come assess
> this situation. Some of them will say "Those laces don't look like
> they're tied tightly at all. I bet they will come untied all by
> themselves by the time the kid is half way around the track and then
> he will be running as fast as everyone else. It's not necessary to
> do anything here!" Some of them will say "Looks to me like the kid
> can still make it around the track but I'd be willing to watch him
> do it again in a day or two (or in a week or two) and if he is still
> falling down a lot, or still consistently late for his next class, I
> would be willing to discuss with you the possibility of untying his
> laces." And still others will say, "Well it's quite obvious
> really. All we need to do is untie the laces and it will only take
> a minute. Then he can run as fast as everyone else, and do other
> things like climb stairs, ice skate and dance!"
>
> Anne Duret, RN IBCLC
> Springfield, Oregon
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