On Feb 7, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Diane Wiessinger wrote:

> 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?

It should have been impossible because the hospital sent me home on  
Friday when he was 3 days old and we didn't pick him up till Monday.   
And while they let us see him, I wasn't allowed to feed him while he  
was under the bili light and no one told me about hand expressing or  
anything at all.  But I was so engorged that I had to stand in the  
shower and express a lot.
I credit my nursing my oldest, now 36 to having a mother that  
breastfed and friends that breastfed too.  I picked him up and  
expected to nurse, so did.
And as I tell my clients, I didn't breastfeed for all the good  
reasons, just because we were poor and I am lazy.  Also my reason for  
perfecting side lying instantly.
So I was just too stupid to fail.

Pat Thomas RN IBCLC
1335 Lakeview Avenue
Winona, MN 55987
1-507-458-8227

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