Patent ID: 7207336

Claim:
A method for assisting a mother in helping a baby latch onto her breast having a nipple surrounded by an areola, comprising the steps of: providing a device with a pair of outwardly and oppositely bowed fingers adapted to apply an equalized force on opposite sides of a portion of a breast centered on a nipple and spaced behind the nipple, said device having means for holding said fingers in selected spaced apart position compressing the breast into a V-shaped wedge and making the areola into an oval; applying said outwardly and oppositely bowed fingers to a breast behind the nipple; positioning a baby so that its lips are generally parallel with a long axis of a V-shaped wedge of breast compressed by the device; and, allowing a baby to latch onto a breast with an areola flattened by the device into an oval accommodating insertion into a baby's mouth.