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 

While scanning headlines on my Facebook news feed the other day, my eye caught sight of the words “ADHD” and “ambidexterity” and a surge of cortisol washed through my body. I will admit that being a psychologist definitely affects who I am as a parent. In many ways, my education, training, and clinical experience have provided me with a storehouse of knowledge that I have utilized in my quest to be a “good enough” parent. On the other hand, knowing all those things and having the capacity to access even more information with the tap of my finger via the worldwide web has seriously