<<How can a mother really enjoy and experience her baby if she is
breastfeeding with the baby swaddled in 2 layers of blankets with the
hands either tied down by the swaddle or covered by mitts?>>
I'm sure people would cringe looking at the pictures of me nursing my
most recently born baby. I have homebirths and there's a picture of me
nursing her literally seconds after birth. She's all bloody and messy
and she's got her hand up touching my breast. She was so wet that I
nearly lost my grasp on her so we did throw a towel up for me to kind of
wrap her a bit but it was more to keep from dropping her not b/c we felt
she needed cleaning up. I think she nursed that way for a good 45
minutes or so before we decided to cut the cord and clean her up.
Hospitals would probably die if they saw that. I was stark naked so it
was definitely skin to skin!
Margo
you can see her in the Rhiannon is here album at
www.picturetrail.com/canadianmade (about five or six albums down)
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