Do you think there may have been a time when mom's uncontrollable breast may have covered baby's nose and he now associates the breast with suffocation? I had a similar mom in the hospital whose method of latching baby on was to cup her had behind baby's head and smoosh his face into the breast. I heard the struggle, saw baby's arms thrashing about & had to pry baby off the breast because mom would not release her grip. She insisted that's how the LC showed her to latch baby on. (Not so. I've seen that LC work many times. This was mom's on interpretation of how to latch.) Phyllis Baby screams, turns > red, barely takes a breath, the minute he is put near the breast. We tried lying down which was a worse disaster > than sitting up since baby then became inconsolable, and breast size became > unmanageable. Mom and dad have very limited intelligence and dad insisted that > cartoons be on t.v. the whole time I was working with mom and baby in living > room! as soon as the baby went near breast he > would mouth slightly a couple times, begin thrashing and then scream. Skin > to skin is okay for baby as long as it is not with breast. I Ann Conlon-Smith, IBCLC, > LLLL --- Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC --- Glendale, AZ, USA --- [log in to unmask] --- Scanned by Norton AntiVirus with auto-updates *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] 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