Sheila... is this mother spending lots of time with her naked baby on her
naked chest?  Forgive me if this is out of line, but I just watched Nils
Bergman's DVD on kangaroo mother care and I'm fired up about it!  :)

Cee

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, sheila stubbs wrote:

> I got a call from a mother yesterday whose 3 week old baby will not latch.
> Has never latched properly. Can't seem to stay on the breast, with a very
> weak suck. . Family doctor says there is nothing physically wrong with the
> baby. She nursed her first two children with no problems. All three were
> born by cesarean section.
>
> Mother can't help but wonder if maybe baby wasn't ready to be born yet,
> since her cesarean was scheduled 2 weeks early to accomodate the
> obstetrician's vacation.
>
> I can't help but wonder if the obstetrician is having a nice relaxing
> vacation while this mother pumps her breasts every three hours around the
> clock, and cries while she feeds it to her baby in a bottle.
>
> Sheila Stubbs
> LLL Leader,
> Ontario Canada
>
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