Hi, Esther: Have you tried Kangaroo Care? It is amazing stuff! Just yesterday, I was ready to leave (half an hour after I told my kids I'd be home) and one of the nurses came up to me with a screaming 5 hour old baby in arms - she was practically in tears herself. Seems baby was just screaming at breast, just could not get baby on, after almost an hour of trying. By now, poor mom was in tears. I stripped baby down to the diaper and laid her on mom's bare chest, while explaining skin-to-skin to the parents. Within minutes baby had calmed, was rooting, and bobbing towards breast. I encouraged mom to slide baby to the nipple she was bobbing towards, and lo and behold, baby self-attached and was still happily nursing 10 minutes later. We all forget that babies are programmed to know what to do and that breastfeeding is baby-led, not mom or other adult-led. Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL USA *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html