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To add to other post:
Remembering that breastfeeding is a dynamic process, the focus needs to be
on getting mother and baby together as much as possible and being as
low-tech as is possible for that mother and that baby in their
circumstances..Funnily enough, four very simple strategies I regularly find
can help are:
1) If I get up and leave the room to do something and leave Mum and baby to
their own devices - give her some "space'.
2) If I suggest the mother gets up and walks round for a few moments, taking
the pressure off her. (Then I suggest it might work at home, too.)
3) A nap, or at least a rest on the bed. So simple, but I've seen it turn
around the situation where mother and baby have both become frustrated at
the mother's anxious attmpts to latch; mastitis that isn't responding; low
supply related to overwhelming weariness. It's a tip I learnt many, many
years ago from LLL. A "holiday in bed with the baby" on the weekend is even
better, but even a morning will do.
4) Encouraging the mother to notice her baby's hands and what they do in the
process of getting onto the breast, and also the use of the little hands to
stimulte the MER by pressing against the breast. (I first noticed this back
in the 1990s when I realised that calves and goat kids head butt the
mother's tough, leathery udder to encourage a letdown, and so I started to
obsever what babies do, instead.)
This isn't to say that there aren't circumstances where we need all our
hard-earned skills and even some technology - and we do - but don't let us
forget that sometimes it is the low-tech skills that help us help the mother
to turn the corner.
My 2 cents' worth.
Virginia
In Brisbane, Queensland.
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