Chris wrote:

> Has this mom tried to feed baby in the clutch/football hold with the
> baby's chin fully down on its chest?   This helps shorten the distance that
> the baby's tongue needs to go to cover the bottom gum.
>

Chris,  I use the football/clutch hold as you do but I advice the chin
to be up off the chest in order to move the entire mandible and thereby
the tongue and the bottom gum closer to the breast.  I don't think it is
enough to have the tongue cover the bottom gum if the entire
tongue/gum/mandiblular complex is further from the lactiferous sinuses
because of the chin being on the chest.

Interesting to think about.  You wouldn't want the gum "biting" the
areola but I think the whole tongue/gum/chin thing move as a unit.  I'd
be interested to learn otherwise if it is so.

Carla