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  • WATCH VIDEOS: Dr Pam helps women breastfeed using the gestalt method
  • Verity prepares to use the gestalt method with 25-day-old Riku (conditioned dialling up, positional instability): steps 1 & 2
  • Verity prepares to use the gestalt method with 25-day-old Riku (conditioned dialling up, positional instability): steps 3 & 4
  • Verity experiments with the gestalt method and Riku finally starts breastfeeding well

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WATCH VIDEOS: Dr Pam helps women breastfeed using the gestalt method

Dr Pamela Douglas12th of Dec 202417th of Dec 2025

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Videos using the gestalt method to help breastfeeding women are found in the PBL section called Parent stories/Breastfeeding. These include

  • GESTALT INTERVENTION: Kirsty and 6-week-old Alva PART 2. Dr Pamela Douglas, F2F Nova Health Co. October 2023

  • Demonstration of how the gestalt method works with a breastfeeding mother and baby

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Verity prepares to use the gestalt method with 25-day-old Riku (conditioned dialling up, positional instability): steps 1 & 2

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Disclaimer: the case below is an amalgam of multiple cases that have presented to me, and is not derived from any specific or identifiable mother-baby pair who have seen me as patients. Needless to say, all names are fictional.

Verity and her newborn prepare to experiment with the gestalt method

Riku has had difficulty coming on to the breast from birth due to positional instability, and has now developed a conditioned dialling up at the breast, too.

  • You can find the story of the first four days of Riku's life and how difficult it was for Verity to bring him on to the breast here.

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Possums acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands upon which The Possums Programs have been created, the Yuggera and Turrbal Peoples. We acknowledge that First Nations have breastfed, slept with, and lovingly raised their children on Australian lands for at least 65,000 years, to become the oldest continuous living culture on Earth. Possums stands with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.