>> Our main gripe (among bf supporters) is that hospital
>midwives still do not know how to help mothers and babies learn to
>recognise  effective positioning, <
>
>Heather -- here was me thinking that the main gripe is that midwives still
>have
>*no* idea how to recognise effective positioning *themselves* -- ;-^  -- maybe
>you have better training of m/ws in Newcastle????

Ha! You got me, Magda - I was being *too kind* , I think.

You are right; too many midwives still do not know themselves what to look
fo - and worse, much worse, think they *do* know. I wish, as a simple first
step, they would just look at lots of mothers feeding, taking in the whole
thing - not just look at the mother and baby when they're latched and say
'that's fine' - and they even say it when the mother says 'but it's really
hurting me'.  This is inexcusable, IMO.


Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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