I encourage mothers to become proficient in BFing in a lying down position and
a sitting up position early on.  Lying down gives you less help from your arms
if you need them, sitting up can be uncomfortable with a sore perineum.
Practice is what makes perfect, and that fits so well with the frequent feeds
in the first days after birth.

My rationale is, it's great not to have to get out of bed to feed in a chair,
and it's equally great not to have to find a place to lie down when you're out
on the town.  (Sooner or later our furniture store is going to catch on, that
all those women with prams are NOT actually shopping for beds.)

I didn't mean to say earlier that all we have to do is step back and let
babies sort it out.  I meant that we should look at the films from Sweden on
self-latch, read the research about how it disturbs the process to separate
mothers and babies, and really LEARN what it is the self-latching babies are
doing, step by step, so we can see how to support that happening in all kinds
of positions.  (I always think about that wonderful photo of the woman hanging
by her heels from a trapeze, breastfeeding her baby, when I say that.)

Rachel Myr
climbing out of the trenches after a pretty good day here, in
Kristiansand, Norway

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