How babies breastfeed: the biomechanics of infant suck (video & animation)

This page belongs to collection of short articles and videos in plain language, called When baby cries a lot in the first few months of life. Together, these articles and videos will give you a brief and simple summary of the Possums 5-domain approach to the crying baby. For comprehensive information on this topic, please consider reading The discontented little baby book.

What's meant by conditioned dialling up at the breast?

Conditioned dialling up at the breast is a common problem, which often causes a breastfeeding woman a great deal of distress. Of course, the baby is very upset, too. Sometimes, this problem is referred to as breast refusal or oral aversion.

Often, it’s missed altogether, and misdiagnosed as an allergy, lactose problem, reflux or tongue-tie.

By ‘conditioned’, I mean a habit which...