Breastfeeding Communiqué

Here is the list of articles in the latest Breastfeeding Communiqué 2008

  • So you have a birth plan  - what about a breastfeeding plan? by Liz Weatherly
  • Exclusive Breastfeeding Plan, by Liz Weatherly
  • Clarifying the confusion over the cross-cradle hold, by Dee Kassing
  • Human milk: What is in it and how did it get there? by Duncan D S MacKenzie
  • The slow-gaining baby, by Teresa Pitman
  • Is breastfeeding really invisible, or did the health care system just choose not to notice it? by Chris Mulford
  • La Leche League New Zealand Breastfeeding Peer Counsellor Programme, by Heather Cotter, Lorraine Taylor, Anne Devereux
  • ‘Mum4Mum' Peer Counselling Programme on the West Coast, by Raewyn Johnson
  • Celebrating Her Life: Edwina Froehlich January 5 1915 - June 8 2008, by Trisha Noack, LLLI Public Relations
  • Betty Wagner Spandikow September 1923 - October 2008, LLLI Public Relations
  • The International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes and Evidence for Regulation to Protect Breastfeeding, by Susan Procter
  • All night long: Understanding the world of infant sleep, by Lauren Porter
  • Who supports breastfeeding? by Jacqueline Clifford, Ellen McIntryre
  • Research Summaries  

See below for excerpts from the article, "Clarifying the confusion over the cross-cradle hold", by Dee Kassing

 Years ago, when I first learned about the cross-cradle position it was called the ‘transition hold'. The idea was that it is a position used to ‘transition' to a cradle hold. Eventually, it got a more specific name of its own, the cross-cradle hold, because the mother uses the arm opposite the one used in a cradle hold to guide her baby while bringing him to the breast. This is a very useful position.

   

This hold was developed because a newborn, whether perfectly healthy full-term or premature, does not have good aim when trying to get to the breast. His head is wobbly when resting on his mother's forearm in the cradle hold. He may come at the areola much like a drunken person staggering down the street!

   

When a mother with sore nipples has been using the cross-cradle hold beyond the early weeks, she can often find relief by simply letting her baby latch on and nurse in the cradle hold position. However, a mother with sore nipples who has a newborn will likely not find relief solely by using the cradle hold. She may find it helpful to learn how to use the cross-cradle hold as a latch-on technique, rather than a nursing position, and how to make the switch to the cradle hold.

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