wondered if her milk had turned bad or dried up.
Fortunately, the problem was much less complicated
than that. Maria had plenty of milk—in fact, too much.
When Stanley tried extra suckling for fun at the end of his
feeding, Maria’s breasts continued releasing a stream of
milk into his throat. Stanley had to pull away to avoid
choking, but he was in a pickle because he still wanted to
suck.
Once Maria and Bill began offering the pacifier at the
end of his feedings, he became an angel again.
Steven and Kelly said their one-month-old bruiser, Ian,
loved sucking on his paci. But if it fell out of his mouth he
started to scream. Kelly lamented, “It works great, but we
feel like we’re becoming his pacifier slaves. My mom joked
that we should just tape it in his mouth. I knew that even
kidding about that was terrible, but we were going out of
our minds.”
When Steven and Kelly called, I taught them about
“reverse psychology.” One week later Kelly called back,
amazed at how quickly the paci problem was solved.
Within a week lan’s mouth muscles were so well trained
he could hold the pacifier for one to two hours without
dropping it.
Kelly said, “It’s weird. I thought the best way to keep
lan’s pacifier in his mouth was to keep pushing it back in.
But what worked was to do exactly the opposite!”
Some babies will suck on anything you put in their
mouths, but some are like miniature gourmets. Take Liam,
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