“What do you do about the sucking”, the mother said to me in broken English, and it took all of my strength not to hug her with all my might. She was the first parent to ever ask me if I perform Metzitzah B’Peh (oral suction), even if she did ask in a slightly cryptic fashion. And as excited as I was, I still felt heart broken because this question should be as commonplace as asking how much I charge. But so few parents out there know what Metzitzah is and the dangers involved.
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