In a message dated 8/26/2003 7:44:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ALZ writes:
> If a baby is reluctant to suck on a mother's breast, she stimulates the
> suck spot with her finger until the baby starts to suck on her finger for a
> few minutes. Then she places baby to breast. Sometimes this works,
> sometimes not. I cannot find anything in the literature which suggests
> this practice.
try checking the archives for "suck training" posts, ..I, like many others,
took a suck training 2 day course some years ago w/Chele Marmet from the
Lactation Institute in Ca.
works sometimes very well for tongue up babies, disorganized suck etc...
several months ago, I used a nipple shield to suck train a frantically hungry
< 24hr old newborn who in spite of much baby effort and LC facilitation could
not latch onto perfectly fine nipples!
....I decided the inability to latch/disorganized suck in this case was
probably due to a difficult birth; baby's face was misshapen & swollen by the
birth, ....finger suck training just didn't do the job, after trying that, and
everything else, baby *could* latch onto shield, ..mom was so relieved and
appreciative that baby was sucking ....almost at breast,
we discussed why/how to delete shield etc, mom seemed she would be very
compliant in the management plan........
....mom used the shield for many "feedings" over the next ~18 hours and had
the baby latched for a few feedings without the shield before I got back to see
her the next day, ...mom was so happy about how this worked out, ...me too.
Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
<A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/lcagw2000/lcagwcover.html">LCAGW</A> Co-VP
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
<A HREF="www.BestBreastfeeding.Info">www.BestBreastfeeding.Info</A>
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