Welcome aboard Lactnet Susie, and best wishes about your exam. Others will have much more to add, but two things struck me. First, whatever method of feeding is going on, it's important not to make the breast a battleground, for that leads to greater and greater aversion by the baby. If all feedings can be done with as much skin to skin and en face position as possible, and actual latching never attempted while the baby is ravenous or fussy, that might go a long way toward reversing the aversion. Also, co-bathing, and just "hanging out" near mom's chest with expressed milk dripping to tantalize sense of smell, taste and touch, with soft sounds and loving eyes, to round out the palette of sensory stimuli. <Mum had trouble bfing 1st 2 babies, stopped after a few months, they both later on had some speech problems.> Second, this makes me wonder about the possibility of a hard to recognize degree of tongue tie, or short tongue running in the family. Jean ************* K. Jean Cotterman RNC, IBCLC Dayton, Ohio USA *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html