Great explanation BG It makes sense if you put yourself in the baby's position... you've just been through an extremely physically demanding experience and then before you you know it you're having a meal shoved in your face. It would be like completing a marathon and then being told to sit down to a meal straight away. Ugh!
I didn't do breast crawls... I wish i had though... but I don't think I actually shoved my nipple into my babies faces too soon after birth... I vaguely recall at the end of my last labour I just held him near my breast and watched to see if he started "rooting" around in that my direction... he did, no problems.
ETA: Maybe there is something to be said about allowing hunger chemicals to register in the baby's brain... it could be the start of a life-time of actually learning to listen to your bodys hunger signals rather than just eating because it's "time" or due to another's prompting (eg a tv advert for a burger). Maybe a whole range of eating disorders could be improved if people learned to listen to what their bodies require and maybe it does start with a good BF relationship... *just musing*
Last edited by Bathsheba; January 6th, 2009 at 10:28 AM.
It makes sense if you put yourself in the baby's position... you've just been through an extremely physically demanding experience and then before you you know it you're having a meal shoved in your face. It would be like completing a marathon and then being told to sit down to a meal straight away. Ugh!
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