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21-02-2007, 10:49
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The Baby Knows How - To Breastfeed, That Is http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/breastfeeding/baby-knows-how.html
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When I learned what Dr. Smillie was doing in her office setting, I went back to my own office and placed six six-day-old babies, clad only in diapers, upright on their mothers' bare chests. Each baby worked his or her way down and over to one breast, wiggling until he or she was at a 45° angle and under the breast. Then each baby magically tilted back its head, anchored its chin on the breast, opened wide, and attached. After more than 33 years in clinical practice, I was in awe.
I watched as these babies fed, then came off the breast all by themselves. What a novel concept—they knew when they were finished. I instructed the mothers to put the babies back upright on their bare chests. This not only provided a great opportunity to burp the babies, but gave them more choices. All six babies made their way to the opposite breast and did the same attachment thing. I was hooked. How could we have missed this simple concept of a baby instinctively attaching on his or her own?
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All this has led me to ponder why we spend so much time and energy micromanaging "the latch." Mothers can be empowered to see that they don't have to learn any "method" of doing this—the baby already knows.
The Baby Knows How - To Breastfeed, That Is http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/breastfeeding/baby-knows-how.html
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When I learned what Dr. Smillie was doing in her office setting, I went back to my own office and placed six six-day-old babies, clad only in diapers, upright on their mothers' bare chests. Each baby worked his or her way down and over to one breast, wiggling until he or she was at a 45° angle and under the breast. Then each baby magically tilted back its head, anchored its chin on the breast, opened wide, and attached. After more than 33 years in clinical practice, I was in awe.
I watched as these babies fed, then came off the breast all by themselves. What a novel concept—they knew when they were finished. I instructed the mothers to put the babies back upright on their bare chests. This not only provided a great opportunity to burp the babies, but gave them more choices. All six babies made their way to the opposite breast and did the same attachment thing. I was hooked. How could we have missed this simple concept of a baby instinctively attaching on his or her own?
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All this has led me to ponder why we spend so much time and energy micromanaging "the latch." Mothers can be empowered to see that they don't have to learn any "method" of doing this—the baby already knows.