Thank you for clearing that up, Virginia!  I had a copy of Successful 
Breastfeeding - it was one of my study texts for the 1990 IBLCE Exam, 
so that's almost certainly the source :-) I wonder if the description 
in your book also describes how to stimulate the baby (behind the 
ears) as well??  I didn't make it up, so I've seen it somewhere!!

Sometimes I worry that some of the older tips and techniques in our 
toolbox that have served us so well will be lost.  Alternate massage 
is definitely one of them.

Pamela
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Pamela Morrison wrote a long post describing "breast compression" and 
"alternate massage". Actually, the term and concept of ":alternate 
massage" goes back much further. I described it in the first edition 
of my book, Successful Breastfeeding, published by a small publisher 
in Sydney in 1974. It was described in the various editions that 
followed with another publisher, through to the last edition in 1991. 
I cited a description by Sr Mary Caritas Iffrig, a nun in Missouri, 
who published on it in 1969 in the International Journal Nursing 
Studies. I quoted from her with permission. The 1969 citation is the 
earliest source I have found, but alternate massage could well have 
been practiced for years before a description was ever published.

Virginia

Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC, FILCA
Ipswich, Queensland, Aust



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