Breast Crawl... what is the point?

[maz]

I had c/s with my amigo's and remember being in recovery wsith Vy and the midwife just said..let her find her way..she took about 20 mins of sniffing and latched on perfectly.

Id like to know HOW c/s woman do the breast crawl....id be scared ****less to have the baby sink their feet into the opening IFYKWIM

Veryy good thread FIONA...must spread the love to a few people

[briggsy's girl]

Kim - apparently the colostrum you produce smells very much like amniotic fluid - in a true breast crawl, the baby is cleaned to a degree, but the amniotic fluid is left on the hands, so as baby is moving around (jerky newborn hand movements) it will smell the amniotic fluid on it's hands, and will be drawn to the similar smell of the breast milk...

Kelly (ages ago) posted a breast crawl vid on here with a convo about it - it peaked my interest so i went looking! will see if i can find the thread

[briggsy's girl]

here is the link to the previous post

[Olive]

kim i think there is something in the amniotic fluid that resembles the smell of brest milk......will go check for you!

here tis :

unborn babies detect subtle changes int the 'flavour' of amniotic fluid. it is believed this fluid acts as a flavour bridge to their mothers breast milk