Aaah, Holly, very interesting - we'll have to swap notes some day ....

But when you say BN positions (which I understand to be "laid-back" 
nursing), having the baby semi-upright and held full-frontal against 
the mom in the sling is not quite the same as lying back, 
surely?   That's the position I've never seen.  But I have seen new 
mothers taking infinite care to teach their babies how to latch, 
leaned over them, and always supporting the breast in the scissors 
manner - we always knew which new mothers had gone through the 
baby-friendly hospitals because they wouldn't be using scissors, but cupping.

Pamela
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I grew up in Central Africa and I recall that the majority of the 
women I observed in public were breastfeeding in very much a 
"biological nurturing position" as most of them were being carried 
'sling-style' on the mom's back and simply slung around to the front 
where mom popped out a breast to nurse. The baby was in a full 
frontal position and upright (or semi-upright) to mom who aften 
continued to walk through the market or sit on the bus as she 
breastfed. I don't recall any pillows or other supports, nor any 
careful hand holds or football positions. :-) 

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