A lactnet reader wrote to ask me for references re: "Vacuum does not pull . . . . " to help her "wrap her head around it".


I will gladly forward thses simple references to anyone else requesting me through my private e-mail.

A teacher explaining a student project to demonstrate this wrote: "What they can not see or experience directly (atmospheric pressure or vacuums) is very difficult for them to use in explaining the world around them. When faced with contradictory evidence, most students will try to "invent" a rationale to explain away the facts. The last thing that they will do is to restructure the way they conceptualize things in order to match the evidence collected."

I think breastfeeding mothers, especially those who develop edema from a lot of IV fluid and then whose babies go to NICU, would benefit if this kind of information were better understood by LC's and nurses.


K. Jean Cotterman RNC-E, IBCLC
Dayton OH

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