> I am enjoying all of these posts too and am admitting to being an 
> older mom .
> My oldest will be 36 in April and I wished I had known more when I had 
> her.
> The prenatal classes were useless.
> I expected to put her to the breast and she would eat and sleep etc.
>
> Hospital routines were brutal. I was allowed to have her for 15 
> minutes every 4 hours.
> Then they took her away and gave her a bottle in the nursery.
> On day 2 they told me I had no milk and I had inverted nipples so 
> would not be able
> to breastfeed. I insisted I was going to keep on trying. They kept me 
> in for a week
> because I was a failure at breastfeeding and I went home promising to 
> bottlefeed after
> each feeding. So we both cried a lot until a friend came over and 
> breastfed my baby
> while I slept for the first time in 5 weeks. After that my baby seemed 
> to know what to do
> and I persisted and stopped crying (My Mom and sisters were in England 
> and my mil never
> breastfed, nor any of my 3 sil's) They all thought I was nuts for 
> doing this.
> So I joined LLL and the rest is history.
>
> I never really learned how to express my own milk but I did learn how 
> to help
> others do this, probably from the old LLL brochure about hand expression.
>
> Breastfeeding lying down was learned by trial and error. I found my 
> most comfortable
> position was with 4 pillows (2 under my head, one behind my back and 
> one between
> my knees) and baby in the crook of my arm 
> Propped up on an elbow has to be incredibly uncomfortable - not sure 
> why so many 
> books still show that position.
>
> Enjoying all of your posts. Thank you Lactnet community.
>
> Ruth Bacon IBCLC
> Ontario
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