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I learned to breastfeed by just doing it. I couldn't stand to hear my
babies cry (oldest is 33 yr) so breastfed despite cracked, bleeding nipples and
likely abysmal latching. Getting water bottles from the nursery and using a
pacifier likely didn't help either. I just thought I was supposed to have
damaged nipples because of my fair skin. I co-slept because I couldn't sleep
with my poor child in the next room in her crib and because I got permission to
from my Lamaze instructor who later became an LC. I nursed lying down on my
side with trial and error just trying to not cause nipple pain. I remember
hand expressing when engorged and just massaged and squeezed the heck out of
my breasts. I also found the cylinder hand pump I had so I could leave a
bottle and go out (was told this was important to maintaining a marriage by above
Lamaze instructor, and being the compliant girl I was then, I followed
through) was painful so hand expression easier or a combination sometimes used.
For me, without any family or even friends who breastfed then, it was just
sticking with it and instinct that got me through; that and a tremendous
supply. Poor firstborn child, somehow survived my learning curve.
Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC
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? =20
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL Ithaca, NY USA
www.normalfed.com
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