http://media.clinicallactation.org/fall10/CLGenna.pdf
If you are a breastfeeding mom like me, you probably have scratch marks, at various stages of healing, across your chest. Well, a few weeks ago, I was surfing the Internet and came across an interesting article titled, “Facilitating Autonomous Infant Hand Use During Breastfeeding” by Genna and Barak (see this link for the full article: http://media.clinicallactation.org/fall10/CLGenna.pdf). Apparently, those seemingly random hand movements your baby engages in while nursing are not so random after all! I attended a lactation consultation class three years ago where I was taught to tuck my baby’s hand between my arm and body so his hands would not “get in the way of a good latch.” In this article, Genna and Barak review literature that suggests infants begin the process of developing deliberate, goal-directed
If you are a breastfeeding mom like me, you probably have scratch marks, at various stages of healing, across your chest. Well, a few weeks ago, I was surfing the Internet and came across an interesting article titled, “Facilitating Autonomous Infant Hand Use During Breastfeeding” by Genna and Barak (see this link for the full article: http://media.clinicallactation.org/fall10/CLGenna.pdf). Apparently, those seemingly random hand movements your baby engages in while nursing are not so random after all! I attended a lactation consultation class three years ago where I was taught to tuck my baby’s hand between my arm and body so his hands would not “get in the way of a good latch.” In this article, Genna and Barak review literature that suggests infants begin the process of developing deliberate, goal-directed
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