The photography and moms and babes are beautiful!  
 
Now that I've been consistently communicating to mothers how to let  their 
babies latch, (instead of perceiving a lack of enough body contact  myself, and 
sometimes correcting it by moving the baby closer myself, or telling  them 
mother to hug the baby in closer) I noticed an interesting difference  between 
three of the photos. 
_http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4084370_ 
(http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4084370) 
 
The two involved in illustrating "be patient..." show the baby in an  
underarm hold without the baby's chest touching the breast.  The finer  print tells 
to have nose opposite nipple and head tilted back. Great.  That  part is okay. 
 
But without the chest touching the breast the new baby still doesn't _know_  
where the breast is.  So the next photo instructs "speed..." and to bring  the 
baby towards the breast quickly. This was the old way I suggested about  five 
years ago. But look at that speed photo! It has the right  components.
 
I have found almost without fail (one baby still didn't open wide and was  
identified as having issues with tongue thrust  and a small bubble  palate)  the 
mothers exclaim, "This is the widest s/he had ever  opened!" when they place 
the baby on their chests skin to skin, baby's chest  against side of breast, 
and the baby's mouth close to the nipple.   With that chest contact and the 
chin and lower lip against the breast near the  nipple they open with a huge gape 
over and over until they get the breast into  their mouths  -- with perhaps a 
gentle hugging in closer contributed by  mom.  It _is_ a gentle way, and I 
have to admit that I'd grown tired of  hearing some moms says that the nurse 
jammed the baby onto her breast or the  nurse buried the baby into her breast.  
Yes, we do educate our staff,  but....
 
So the third photo that says "speed..." actually shows decent contact with  
the baby's chest against the breast and if you take away the 'speed" and "move  
quickly" instructions, it serves as an excellent illustration for what  
works.  I showed this photo to a nurse yesterday without the caption or  
instructions and she exclaimed, "Why that's a perfect position and latch.   What a great 
photo." 
 
Mardrey Swenson 
New Hampshire USA
 
 



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