My son had a poor latch and a weak suck. Every feed, I had to coax him to open his mouth wide enough to latch on, then break the suction as soon as he retracted his tongue enough to compress the nipple instead of the areole, and start over again. And again. And again.
The only reason I succeeded with him was that my first nursling had been a natural, so I could tell when he wasn't doing it right, so I could pop him off before my ducts got compressed enough to clog.
Rivka, I think the odds are good that your next baby will be much easier to feed.
[Mungo also needed speech therapy in order to be comprehensible to anyone but us. I knew his poor motor coordination with nursing was relevant to the diagnosis of his speech problems, but I had no idea that the speech pathologist might have been able to help with the nursing!]
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Date: 2006-04-20 03:44 pm (UTC)My son had a poor latch and a weak suck. Every feed, I had to coax him to open his mouth wide enough to latch on, then break the suction as soon as he retracted his tongue enough to compress the nipple instead of the areole, and start over again. And again. And again.
The only reason I succeeded with him was that my first nursling had been a natural, so I could tell when he wasn't doing it right, so I could pop him off before my ducts got compressed enough to clog.
Rivka, I think the odds are good that your next baby will be much easier to feed.
[Mungo also needed speech therapy in order to be comprehensible to anyone but us. I knew his poor motor coordination with nursing was relevant to the diagnosis of his speech problems, but I had no idea that the speech pathologist might have been able to help with the nursing!]