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Re: how did you learn?
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Cee Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 7 Feb 2009 13:41:08 -0800
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Diane... my oldest is 30. I learned to breastfeed effectively by trial and error and a really deep commitment and stubbornness that I was going to make it work. 

I learned to hand express mostly by trial and error, too... although it's possible that the only breastfeeding book I had at the time may have covered it to some degree. The book was The Complete Book of Breastfeeding by Sally Wendkos Olds and Marvin Eiger.

You can probably guess that I learned to nurse lying down by trial and error, too... and out of sheer exhaustion! 
 
Truly, I think the key to success in all of this - and something I see missing with some/many of the moms I encounter today - was a deep determination to make breastfeeding work for my baby and me.  There might have just been some dumb luck mixed in with my success, too.  LOL.

Cee


--- On Sat, 2/7/09, Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: how did you learn?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 9:10 AM
> Those of you whose firstborns are older than 28 or so:
> 
> How did you learn to breastfeed effectively? How did you
> learn to hand express? How did you learn to breastfeed
> lying down? 
> 
> Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY USA
> www.normalfed.com
> 
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