The mechanisms of breastfeeding are created by nature and are based on the sucking reflex of the newborn. However, to improve the feeding and to achieve maximum comfort for both - mom and baby - you need to practice. It will be especially useful to choose the most comfortable postures for feeding.
How to properly breastfeed a newborn?
First, before feeding, you need to get comfortable, both to mom and to baby. Feeding should bring pleasure to both, this is the moment when you are as close as possible to the most precious little man. When you intend to feed the baby, no one, except you, should be in the room. Create a cozy atmosphere - mute the light, curtain the window, turn on the quiet pacifying music.
Secondly, immediately after childbirth, as well as with the growth of the baby, change postures during breastfeeding, looking for the most suitable for both of you.
Thirdly, changing the posture during feeding is sometimes just necessary, for example, when milk is stagnant or the nipple is damaged.
Correct postures for feeding
Feeding sitting. The most common is the classic pose for feeding a "cradle". On the mother's hand, which is located on the knee of legs bent in Turkish, lies a baby facing the breast. The body of the child is deployed to the mother, with the tummy it touches the abdomen of the wet nurse. One of the hands of a woman holds the buttocks of the baby, and the other rest the head and torso of the baby.
For weakened or premature babies, you can use a cross version of the "cradle" when support is provided for the baby's neck and head. The trunk of the baby is located on the forearm of the mother, and the head is on the palm of the other hand.
Women who underwent Cesarean section surgery will be treated with a feeding posture from the armpit. At the same time, there is no pressure on the lower abdomen. This same posture helps in those cases when the mother has flat nipples, or the baby has an "unloved" breasts, which must be taught. At the sitting on the bed of the mother the baby is located on the side, as if from the armpit. The baby's neck supports the mother's palm. The tummy he turns to the side of the wet nurse, and his legs are located behind her.
When the baby is already sitting on his own, he can be fed, having arranged on his hips.
Feeding prone. Particularly comfortable posture for feeding a child lying down. They can be used during sleep, which allows both of them to practically not wake up. Mom and the child are located on their sides facing each other. Mum lies on the pillow, and the baby's head is located on the elbow of the arm in such a way that his mouth is opposite the nipple of the lower breast.
With lactostasis, when there was a blockage in the upper lobes of the chest, the "jack" position for feeding will do. Unlike the previous position, the legs of the baby are located along the mother's head, and he is on his side.
To postures for feeding lying lies and feeding "from under the arm" or capture the ball. The kid is put on pillows, his legs are behind his mother's back, and his head is on her palm. This posture will be optimal after caesarean section, with lactostasis of the lateral segments of the breast.
Women with a perineal incision fit the position of feeding from the armpit "from under the arm" in a supine position. Mom lies on his side, as if hanging over the baby, holding his back with his hand, and palm controlling the head.
The postures for twin feeding are based on the classic "cradle", with several modifications. One baby is located as usual - on one hand, and the second - on the other, hugging the first child. Twins legs cross. Children can be placed on both hands, but parallel to each other. You can use the feeding posture from the armpit.
It is comfortable to arrange yourself or put a child to help a special pillow for feeding, while using such things as a "cradle", "from under the arm", lying on its side.
In any case, among a variety of arrangements, mom and baby need to practice, looking for their comfortable postures for feeding.