> she went to my sister's =
>house, and lay on a bed to breastfeed her baby.  She had been told in =
>hospital that her milk flow was too fast for her baby if she held him in =
>her arms, and she had to posture feed.  So every feed that baby had was =
>with mother lying flat on her back.

I have learned this position at the Lactation Institute by the label of
"mother supine, baby prone", and still find use for it.  I usually will
try it if I have a baby with a bubble palate who is difficult to latch
deeply, causing mother lots of pain, or who is backing off because of a
strong MER.  I once had a mom come to me with a baby who simply would not
stay latched--- just slurped and cried and would NOT stay on, resulting
in poor weight gain. Nursing in this prone position was the *only* way
that worked for baby.  I tried on subsequent follow-ups to transition
baby to other, more upright positions for mom's sake, but the baby would
not stay latched in any other position. Mom, bless her heart, told me
that she didn't mind this inconvenience; she was grateful that baby was
breastfeeding, period.

-Lisa Marasco, BA, IBCLC