“Being a doctor, I thought I had good knowledge of lactation and breastfeeding already,” Elsa John, an anaesthetist and a first-time mother in Vellore, told this author. “But nothing prepared me for the doubts that came in the initial days when I had to do it.”
She recalled that a nurse pinched her nipples hard to produce milk. “They repeated this every time there was a shift change, over eight to 10 times,” she recalled. “They also demonstrated, vaguely, a few ways I should hold my baby. None of the information was helpful.”
