Still no-mail, but this is too cool to wait: A 13 month old had mouth sores that ended in a nursing strike by the time they'd healed. For 5 days the mom used skin-to-skin, getting no further than not having him scream when he got near her breast. Twice he nursed in his sleep, never when he was awake. One of you lactnetters (Karen Zeretzke?)had told me about spinning a baby to end a strike, and it was one of the ideas I passed on to her. After 5 days and getting desperate, she took her shirt off, stood up and held him in a cradle hold, *spun* rapidly in one direction, *spun* in the other direction, and offered her breast. He latched right on. And he's been nursing up a storm ever since, as if making up for lost time. "It was like magic," she kept saying. I asked her if she had any sense of just what went on in his head. "It seemed reflexive," was her comment. He just latched on as he always had, and the strike ended. Boom. A co-Leader of mine said spinning is sometimes used in some forms of physical therapy. But it's sure going to be near the head of my list of solutions for nursing strikes from now on. Skin to skin and sleep-nursing aren't working? Try spinning! Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY *********************************************** 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