Breastfeeding is not intuitive. Make sure your hospital has lactation specialists too help you get the hang of feeding your baby. When the baby is born, call on that lactation specialist as much as you need to in order to feel comfortable with breastfeeding. Postpartum doulas can come to your home for a fee and help you breast feed, and your hospital’s lactation consultants can answer questions over the phone or at the hospital.
Resource: Watch the videos on how to achieve latch on, on the Breastfeeding Made Simple sight.
Pacifiers and bottle feeding may have a negative effect on your baby’s ability to breast feed. Talk to your pediatrician or read up about this before your baby is born, so you are able to assert yourself and make educated decisions while in the recovery area / new parent room.
The nurses at my hospital automatically give all new babies a pacifier, and gave my baby some formula because his temperature dropped (due to their not following their own post-bathing procedures for preemies). This may have made it more difficult for my baby to learn to breast feed.
On the other hand, when I went back to work Tom took a bottle just fine. A friend of mine has a baby who would not take a bottle when she went back to work. This was extremely stressfull for all involved. The helped her (and is the one Tom likes as well).
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Postpartum doulas can come to your home for a fee and help you breast feed, and your hospital’s lactation consultants can answer questions over the phone or at the hospital. Resource: Watch the videos on how to achieve latch on, ……
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Postpartum doulas can come to your home for a fee and help you breast feed, and your hospital’s lactation consultants can answer questions over the phone or at the hospital. Resource: Watch the videos on how to achieve latch on, ……