Breastfeeding is not intuitive. Make sure your hospital has lactation
specialists too help you get the hang of feeding your baby. When the
baby is born, call on that lactation specialist as much as you need
to in order to feel comfortable with breastfeeding. Postpartum doulas
can come to your home for a fee and help you breast feed, and your
hospital's lactation consultants can answer questions over the phone
or at the hospital.
Resource: Watch the videos on how to achieve latch on, on the
Breastfeeding Made Simple sight.
Pacifiers and bottle feeding may have a negative effect on your
baby's ability to breast feed. Talk to your pediatrician or read up
about this before your baby is born, so you are able to assert yourself
and make educated decisions while in the recovery area / new parent
room.
The nurses at my hospital automatically give all new babies
a pacifier, and gave my baby some formula because his temperature
dropped (due to their not following their own post-bathing procedures
for preemies). This may have made it more difficult for my baby
to learn to breast feed.
On the other hand, when I went back to work Tom took a bottle
just fine. A friend of mine has a baby who would not take a bottle
when she went back to work. This was extremely stressfull for
all involved. The helped her (and is
the one Tom likes as well).
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