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her happy.” And, as if on cue, Marie-Claire would
smile ear-to-ear, and even the most skeptical person
would be won over!
Renée, Al, Marie-Claire, Esmé, and Didier
Sophia had problems nursing when she was born.
Our nurse practitioner advised me to use a special
device to supplement her feedings. So, I taped this
tiny tube to my breast and inserted it into her mouth,
along with my nipple.
About that time, when she was three weeks old, she
started becoming very fussy. During feedings, she
would scream and flail, often accidentally knocking
out both my nipple and the tube.
Despite my frustration, I stuck it out until the night
before her two-month checkup. That night she was
worse than ever. Sophia was thrashing, yanking on
the tube, and mangling my nipple. I swore I would
never feed her that way again, even if it meant I
could no longer breast-feed.
The next day I told Dr. Karp about my struggles
feeding Sophia, and he said four words that changed
everything: “Don’t forget the swaddling.” We had

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swaddled Sophia initially but stopped after a few
weeks because she fought it so much. However, Dr.
Karp encouraged us to give it another go.
That afternoon, I tightly swaddled her and tried her
on the breast (without the feeding tube). The most
extraordinary thing happened: She breast-fed calmly
and with focus. It was as though she never had a