And, before and beyond listening: watch mom and her bodylanguage/facial expression as she takes baby to the breast. Some women do not ''complain'' of pain with words, but their bodies tell it for them. The little frown, the just lifting the shoulders by a cm, bending the back, clenching the teeth, ... all signs of pain and signal to re-latch
Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC, still with a house full of flu in southern Netherlands
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] Fair hair and sensitive skin
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 8:57 AM
Hi Sam, and everyone else,
The myth of the inverse relationship between skin pigment and sensitivity is a
hard one to eradicate. Maybe it's because many are quick to dismiss a
woman's early warnings of soreness unless they can see redness of her skin?
In a pale-skinned person, inflammation is visible long before it is in people of
richer hue. But *every* woman whose baby has a bad latch that causes pain,
will get sore, and just as quickly and disastrously, as the ones in which we can
see it from the start.
This could be an opening for a discussion about how we listen to women.
Unless we can see 'proof' that what they are telling us is 'true', we don't take
it in. When the proof is harder to catch sight of initially, we may think that the
problem isn't there as early as it is.
Take home message: LISTEN TO WOMEN.
Cheers, and have a good week, I know I plan to!
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand
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