Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Jane HBFW
When I was pregnant with my first son, discussion of feeding method was fairly limited.
At 13-week booking appointment:
Midwife - “How will you be feeding your baby?”
Me - “With the placenta, for some while to come, I hope! Ha-ha-ha!”
Midwife - “Ha-ha, yes, very good. And after the baby’s born?”
Me (serious again and with the optimism of [...]
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Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by Jane HBFW
There is no way that every woman in the UK will breastfeed. That might sound like a negative way to begin, but I prefer to think of it as realistic. There is a whole raft of reasons why this is true, medical and emotional, from the “cannots” to the “prefer nots”.
I start like this because [...]
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Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Jane HBFW
I thought it might be an idea to start this section with “what do you wish you’d known about breastfeeding when you were pregnant?”.For me, it was something really silly. I wish somebody had explained where the baby’s bottom arm went when you were feeding. I fed my first son in the cross cradle position [...]
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