Hello, All:  We all run into the frustrated comments from parents on a 
daily basis on how everyone is telling them something different.  What 
we've all lost is the hormonal basis of breastfeeding and of all human 
behavior.  I like to tell parents that when their babies are skin-to-skin 
with them, this position allows the parent and the baby's hormones 
to "talk" to each other.  Thru this type of "hormone conversation", both 
the parent and the baby are able to get what they need from each other - 
feeding, comfort, and warmth for the baby and feel-good feelings and 
bonding for the parents.  I just picked up a copy of Kerstin Uvnas Moberg, 
MD, PhD's book, The Oxytocin Factor ($2.17 for hardback, what a deal, on 
Amazon.com).  I have just begun to look thru it and can already see that it 
is a must read.  She devotes a chapter to oxytocin and breastfeeding alone.

This is what parents need to hear:  "Take all the information that you are 
getting from books, internet, videos, classes, and well-meaning friends and 
relatives, lay it all out on the mental table in front of yourself, sort 
thru it, and put together a parenting package that works for you and your 
family.  And if Plan A doesn't work, move on to Plan B."  In the words of a 
dad last week: "That makes the most sense of anything I've heard yet!"

Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL  USA

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