Dr Gordon has highlighted what I believe to be the basis for how we work
with mothers and babies:

>  To paraphrase
> the late, great Dr. Jeliffe, "breastfeeding is a confidence game."  If we
can
> keep the family's confidence up, nursing will succeed.

I think it was Wells who said something along the lines that the two spheres
needed for breastfeeding were the right and left hemispheres of the brain?

Jean Ridler  RN  RM  IBCLC
Cape Town  South Africa  [log in to unmask]

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