> <but I am more and more
> relaxed about that the first 24 hours.  Instead of harassing sleeping
> babies
> and practically forcing bottles into them, let's use our energy to teach
> mothers the skill of fingertip expression>
>
> Yes! But first, HCP's have to learn how to do it effectively!
>
> <and encourage them to do so right
> into the baby's mouth, until such time as baby wakes up and starts
> looking
> around for food.  This may not happen until 48 hours post partum>
>
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>
I think this is a great idea, and while we are at it, we can teach them
-- the mothers and the health care providers -- that "expression at the
breast" is a great way to keep a reluctant baby nursing longer, of
waking up a drowsy baby, and even of helping with a lazy latch. I have
found that baby asleep in my arms can be encouraged to open wide when he
remembers what he was dreaming about. A little dab'll do you. (Now you
can see what generation I belong to LOL)
Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, b. 1957 IBCLC 2001

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