Keep up the good work!

Thanks for sharing your positive experience. Women need to know that it can be done!

Thanks for the comment. I have posted about this before, so i thought I’d share the link since you are expecting again. This is “the breastcrawl”. It shows how a baby, born naturally, can actually kick its way to its mothers breast and latch on with no assistance. If you’ve not yet seen it, please check it out. It brought tears to my eyes the first time I saw it. I do think that breastfeeding is instinctual, but so many times it gets messed up by the way things are done in the hospitals. All of the weighing and nose suctioning, and so forth. you know, you have been there. And then, we never get to actually see people breastfeeding. It is all done so privately, that it has almost become a lost art here in America. Even the baby dolls have bottles!

I think that you make an excellent point, though. It may take time to learn, for you and the baby. And there are tough times and worrisome times and just downright embarrassing times. But it is worth it. For the mom and the baby. It is what we were made to do!

I agree so much about trying to nurse in the first 20 minutes. I actually achieved this with my third child, and she latched on immediately. We never had issues with latch. etc.

Great advice!

Although worth everything you put into it there certainly isn’t a situation out there where it all went totally smoothly at first. Takes time to learn.

:–) Nell