Dear Friends:
 
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"Then there is all the conflicting advice.  Many moms report that  every
nurse told them something different or that they saw 3 different  lactation 
specialists in the hospital, and they all said something different."  from 
Debbie Albert's terrific post
 
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    People learn more by what they do than by what they  read or hear.
    This is another reason supporting skin-to-skin  care, and hand expressing 
colostrum on a spoon. A mother who is overwhelmed by  so many new people and 
experiences and suggestions can learn to focus on her  baby, the one constant, 
when the baby is skin-to-skin, and she actually takes  the milk out of her 
breast herself and puts it on a spoon and gives it to her  baby.
    There is no guarantee that she will learn enough by  this technique; 
however, her changes of retention will improve enormously  because she is the doer.
    When she learns to look to her baby for the  answers, the confusion 
disappears.
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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