Initiating Breastfeeding using breastcrawl.

[kiskidee]

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

breast crawl

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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.

Thank you for that. I think the level of care within the maternity unit was great and the ataff were very attentive and sympathetic for me as a new mum.

However, now that I am an 'old-hand' at this 'being a mum and stamping your foot until they get it right' malarky (a tactic I often use at Doctor's surgery's etc!), I will definately know what to do next time and my baby won't be whisked into his little plastic bed.

In some ways though, it was probably for the best, as I had learned to use the gas and air effectively during ante-natal yoga so I was absolutely away with the fairies! I hadn't had any other form of pain relief throughout the birth (due to being fully dialated when I arrived) but I clearly remember looking to one side of me and seeing my DH going slightly white / green / scarlet during my 'embroidery' and on the other side was my new little bundle.
One was content to be swaddled in blankets and was looking straight at me and the other looked really bloody hot and ready to pass out! The sounds in the room slowed down and I remember hearing really slow beeping - very creepy when I think about it now!

I don't imagine that I'd have been able to even hold a conversation at that point let alone hold onto my DS! But to have been given the option would have been nice!

Sorry to have gone off on a tangent - just lapsed into a moment of reminiscing! (sp?)

Thanks, Tiktok. Yes, I did BF. Everything seemed to be going fine at first but she didn't gain weight for about 8 weeks after birth, and it was thought it was because she wasn't feeding for long enough (latch and everything OK,plenty of milk available and was very settled and happy). For a few weeks I had to give her supplementary expressed breastmilk from a bottle as well as normal breastfeeds on the advice of a paediatrician, which seemed to sort everything out. Don't know if that's likely to be related to her early experiences.

a beautiful video, makes me feel all broody. have passed it on to our surestart midwife who is currently training the next batch of b/feeding counsellors.

Awww that was so beautiful. I remember something similar happening with ds2. We has just been settled in the recovery room after my c-s. I was propped up on some pillows with ds snuggled between my - very ample - boobs and he started wriggling and kicking to one side, and then he managed to latch on himself. I was so surprised that I let out yelp, the MW ran over to see what was wrong and can vaguely remember saying to her, 'oh look what's happened', she just laughed and said 'well he's a baby and he's meant to do that!' I spoke to her after and she said she had just found out about breastcrawling herself and was 'trying' it quietly' with all the Mums in her care to see how it worked, she said she had some fantastic results. I hope she has kept going with this, it certainly reassured me that BF is so much more natural than we are allowed to beleive!

To my mind skin to skin contact with your new baby is one of the most beautiful feelings in this world. Where birth is so often made far too clinical this a beautiful wonderful, totally instinctual almost animal feeling. If anyone had tried to take either of my DSs from me at that point in time I think I would've bitten their fingers off!

I did this with DD2 and is was lovely to see her help herself

awwwwwwwwww........wonderful.......we need to learn more patience in our society!

Had lots of trouble breast feeding first child and so before birth of second went to a breast feeding consellor. She told me to warn my partner not to expect to hold the baby straight away as the best start to breast feeding was to put the baby straight onto my bare chest and leave it there. She said the baby would recover from the birth and then in her own time start to bang her haead across my chest looking for the breast and making mouthing motions. I was a little but cynical to be honest as had had such trouble latching on the first one, but was willing to try. Had uncomplicated delivery and did as she had suggested. It was amazing, exactly as she said it would happen, after about 20 minutes baby went looking for my breast latched on and we have been plain sailing ever since. I had to ask the midwives not to take her off me at all in the first hour, and to do the checks etc while she was still lying on me, and it was not until after she had had first feed that she was passed around for cuddles with partner and weighted etc. I had home birth so might have been easier to do things at own pace, not sure if hospitals would want to get on with weighing etc?

That is absolutely beautiful. I cried like a lunatic. Gorgeous. Thank you.

And I had a hospital birth (in midwife-led ward) and I specifically asked for skin to skin contact immediately after birth and to breastfeed my baby asap and they did exactly what I asked so it is definitely worth making your wishes known. They didn't weigh her or anything until about an hour after she'd arrived.

This video should come with a warning. I got rid of some of our baby things today (DS3 is 11 months) and was so pleased with myself that I didn't feel the wrench I would have done after DS2 and no longer had that broody feeling.

Thanks to this video, DH will be getting the old 'just one more?' tonight!