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Infant feeding

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Initiating Breastfeeding using breastcrawl.

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kiskidee · 28/06/2007 13:11

excellent video. warning: may bring tears to your eyes.

breast crawl

you may also like to read this site too.

been told by a friend who is bf a now 6 wk old (but born at 30 wks) that when she was still struggling to latch him properly, if she relaxed put her ds on her chest and relaxed and let him 'get on with it' he achieved a better latch than her efforts of latching him on.

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Chirpygirl · 29/06/2007 19:59

Oh, that's so lovely. Am more pissed at the midwives now as after my CS DD was placed like that on my bare chest when we were moved to the ward and she started wiggling and moving closer to my nipple but when we reached the ward she was lifted off and I was rolled over and shown how to BF lying down. If only they had left her a few more minutes!

Def one to rememebr for next time.

Mrsjaffabiffa · 29/06/2007 21:36

Amazing Video and

It works, It really works. I have been struggling to get dd (6 weeks) to latch well. Her weight has sufferered as has my milk supply due to inefficient feeding. I thought I'd try it after watching the video and I couldn't believe it, even at 6 weeks she wriggled her way across and latched brilliantly with a huge mouth and for the first time so far had her top and bottom lip turned out with nearly all my areola in her mouth.

Thanks, I am sooooo pleased, we have been feeding like this each feed today and she has halved her feeding time and seems full after. Not sure it will be good in public though.

cinnamontam · 29/06/2007 21:58

That is incredible. Going to try it with my 5 week old girl at next feed

FlameDelacour · 11/07/2007 09:59

DS did similar when he was born - he was in my arms rather than between breasts, I was just cuddling him with his head in the crook of my arm. The next thing I knew he had shuffled his head and latched on

edam · 11/07/2007 10:03

Damn. I don't have the right plug in to watch this. But I wish I'd known about it rather than struggling to get the 'right' latch. Maybe I could have avoided cracked nipples and mastitis.

moondog · 11/07/2007 10:06

If anyone gets the ABM magazine,there is a lovely article dealing with the similarities between us and humans and how all good farmers know that you don't clean off a newborn animal straight away and that you don't force it to the breast,rather letting it find it's own way.

We have unlearnt so much valuable information and he result is that an awful lot of women and babies are short changed..

moondog · 11/07/2007 10:08

Not online yet,but all past copies are which make inspirational reading.

NaeDanger · 11/07/2007 10:14

wow wow wow wow
that was amazing

Highlander · 11/07/2007 10:28

aw, wow Did you see how perfect that latch was?

jonah75 · 12/07/2007 18:42

awwww thats awesome, wish i'd seen that before dd was born. it's a beautiful thang!!

FluffyMummy123 · 12/07/2007 18:49

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pixiereb · 12/07/2007 20:01

def going to try this with my next one. Got dd1 to feed real well in the end but had two weeks of hell to start with - not latching on properly followed by cracked nipples, mastitis . . . Midwife told me pink nipples always have problems and showed me a rugby tackle hold and a hold with a breastfeeding pillow. Nothing work til my mum sat down with me and showed me how she'd fed her three: sat them on her lap and leaned them back and sideways. Worked great for me and i banished the stupid pillow to under the bed. I bet in societies where brestfeeding is more culturally acceptable (and birth itself!!), women see breastfeeding all the time and know how it happens and what to do rather than panicking at point of delivery so to speak.

NaeDanger · 12/07/2007 20:32

fgs cod, if babies are so dull why are you on a parenting site?
can't you just be nice for once?

NorbertStanleyFletcher · 12/07/2007 21:13

Very beautifull vidio

beforesunrise · 12/07/2007 21:13

amazing video. i saw a similar, norwegian one while pregnant (empty room apart from mother and baby, all clinical whites etc lol), and felt inspired to "just let things happen" after the birth. i will never forget dd latching on to me within minutes of being born, still all covered in varnix etc.

right, i am off to seduce dh and convince me to make me a new one!

PS it wasn't the people in the room that shocked me, but that she was more or less fully dressed in a sari!

ushag · 12/07/2007 21:51

Big red eyes and nose now.... that was truely beautiful. I must have been lucky with my midwives as both times my sprogs were placed straight onto my tum/chest and both fed. This should be shown in schools!

bellabelly · 12/07/2007 23:17

Wept like a fool. Beautiful!

spikejack · 13/07/2007 15:43

What a beautiful video! I know this thread was posted a few weeks ago but I felt I had to comment, just in case somebody else reads it!

Immediately after the birth of my DS (20 months ago) he was put onto my chest. However, within 5 minutes or so, he was wrapped in a blanket and put in the crib while I had my 'embroidery' done. He didn't breastfeed at all that day (he was born at 7.38am so it was a long day!) and he still hadn't fed any of the following day. In tears and after my first sleep deprived night, I spoke to a midwife who tried to persuade me to give him formula! I was determined to keep trying to breastfeed but with no 'luck'.

I was really pleased with the care I received from the Maternity unit but if I had known that it is quite normal for a baby not to feed for up to 3 days after birth, I would have felt so much better. As it was, I felt like I had somehow failed as a Mum before I'd even had a chance to begin!

I'd really like another baby and having seen the amazing video, I know exactly what I want to next time!

Am off to draft my next birth plan!

mears · 13/07/2007 15:44

This is why women are encouraged to have their babies skin-to-skin after delivery in Babyfriendly Hospitals. I have seen happen many a time - beautiul

tiktok · 13/07/2007 15:48

Aw, spikejack

It's absolutely not normal for a baby to not feed for 3 days. But the answer is of course not formula, it's to ensure the baby is in a situation where feeding takes place gently, and soon....it's very usual, but not at all 'normal', for a baby to be placed in a crib after birth, sleeping the hours away. Good maternity units keep babies skin to skin with mum, even during the sewing up, and they certainly don't let the baby stay in the crib for ages and ages. If the baby doesn;t want to feed, then mum is helped to express colostrum which the baby then gets (usually in a little cup) and mum and baby are kept together until it all falls into place.

The care you had from that unit may have been good in some ways, but not in that one.

next time as you say, you'll know what to do

mears · 13/07/2007 15:52

I didn't read spikejack's post earlier - totally agree with Tiktok. Babies who are very sleepy should be skin-to-skin wirth their mothers, gently stimulated to feeed and if the won't, be given expressed colostrum form their mums. Pain relief in labour can make a baby sleepy so sometimes expressing and keeping baby as close as possible will help. No need for baby to have been removed for your 'embroider' You'll know what to expect next time.

nailpolish · 13/07/2007 16:00

i have downloaded it but cant get it ot work
its a blank screen. i can hear the soundtrack tho

diplodocus · 13/07/2007 16:03

Sorry to hijack, but can I ask a BF question? My daughter didn't BF for 48 hours following emergency CS during which she had to have a lot of suction for inhaled meconium . Staff were great and I tried BF within the hour, skin to skin ASAP,expressing etc. but do you think it was the suctioning that put her off? She wasn't particularly sleepy - just didn't seem to want to suck. Wondering if I can do anything else next time (other than trying to avoid another CS of course!).

tiktok · 13/07/2007 16:06

diplodocus, yes, suctioning can make babies 'orally averse' but they do get over it. Makes it harder to bf, because with a bottle you can just 'screw' the teat in.

Did you manage to bf later on?

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