Dear Lactnet Friends:

Modern society is disconnected from newborn babies....this new study from
Oregon is an example.

If m others can't use pacifiers to shut their babies up, they will use
bottles of formula.

The truth is that newborns need to be in arms for at least the first 3 days
while they are weaning from the continual feeds of the placenta. Newborns
want to breastfeed often because they are adjusting to a new world (dealing
with light, sounds, changing temperature, and gravity), or want relief from
the pain of a rough delivery or of a circumcision, or because they have
fallen in love with their mothers and want to be near her.

Breastfeeding is a relationship, infinitely more than food.  Current
society does not understand this. Hospital staff tell mothers to breastfeed
X number of times in 24 hours, and then to put the baby down. Babies become
frightened or unhappy when far from the heart they've heard all their
lives. A person who learned to think of breastfeeding as  only food,
thinks, "I just fed you, twice, an hour ago." The baby's needs are
misinterpreted, and a pacifier or bottle is given to shut the kid up.
Mistake!

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/pacifiers-breastfeeding_n_1459811.html
>

It is the rare adult who looks at the clock before taking a drink or a
snack.

warmly,

-- 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI, ANLC, CKC
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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