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Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 75
As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselessness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
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My mother is a lactation consultant, who has a 24/7 guestroom set up for newly lactating mothers to be observed and assisted with breastfeeding problems. She lets them get comfortable, and stays within reach to come and observe/help if/when the infant is wakeful and hungry, otherwise leaving them alone and private. If I may, what I set out here is some of what she has shared with me. You may already be familiar with much of this, and if it is redundant, please accept my apology.
The most common problems are:
1. correct latching on (correct latch-on results in the entire aureola of the breast being completely within the infant's mouth, if the infant takes only the nipple into its mouth, milk cannot flow and it can be very painful. If an incorrect latch on takes place, use a finger to break the suction by letting air in between mouth and nipple (this can be very strong), and reposition the baby. Whole baby in close, and gently stroke its cheek to help it find the breast again. (baby will turn towards the stroking). A good latch-on positions the nipple at the back of the baby's mouth, and most or all of the aureola will not be visible at all. This is still a bit startling, at first, but will not produce pain.
2. Not learning how to recognise the "let down" reflex and patiently wait for it to occur. There is a knack to learning how to read the difference between a child sucking the scant foremilk (suck, suck, suck, suck, swallow) and sucking the abundant aftermilk (suck, swallow, suck, swallow, suck, swallow). (These different rhythms relate to the time it takes to fill the mouth before swallowing.) Sometimes, in new mothers it can take a long time for the let down to occur, especially when being watched by others, or when anxious about "doing it right". However the change in rhythm is the "tell" that a let down has occurred, and after this the infant will feed until full, which can happen quite quickly, at which point they simply relax their suck and (often) succumb to sleep.
3. Engorgement can also cause problems if the newly stimulating milk-making glands in the breast fill it so full that it is painful to touch. In addition to the usual "cabbage leaf in bra" advice (this is *really* useful for helping relieve the pain and swelling), it can help to adopt a temporary policy of completely emptying one breast before nursing from the other, on the basis that new milk production will not be stimulated as long as one breast continues full. One can "take the top off" the overfull breast with a bit of squeezing for relief, but very often, once each breast is emptied one at a time (this may take several feeding sessions over the course of a day), the engorgement is gone.
Anyway, all of these tips were hugely helpful to me, and - I hear - to many, many of her clients.
Best wishes to you and your small 'un, whatever happens! Many blessings on your lives together!
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I am very aware of the degree to which any new mother becomes a magnet for unasked advice, so I wrote that with some trepidation, too. ;)
Many blessings on your new, expanded family life with small 'un.