That is so beautiful :) I shall try that out in about 12 weeks time...... The hands still smell of the amniotic fluid so when baby touches the breast the breast does to!! Mother Nature at her finest
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That is so beautiful :) I shall try that out in about 12 weeks time...... The hands still smell of the amniotic fluid so when baby touches the breast the breast does to!! Mother Nature at her finest
This is absolutely facsinating...It made me cry :) ...
I could only watch the video without sound but i thought it was great. I would really like to try this out but as someone sadi before i don't knwo about everyone being in the room maybe just me, DP and my mum. I think it is a special moment that should be shared with the 2 people i love the most. Will elt you know how it goes it 7 months time hahahaha Well done to the mums that have already tried this out.
hi tracey, your kids are beautiful and the wedding photo is great. Where do you live now? Do you and the kids speak Indonesian/Balinese?
I ask because I live in Brisbane with my Indonesian husband (he's Betawi) our son Olly. We have another baby due in January (no idea what to call him) and we are lucky enought to have quite a few friends here in campur marriages with beautiful little Indo babies. They are Acehnese, Timorese, Sundanese and Betawi.
It's great to meet you!
Lara
Wow that was an amazing video, i cant believe the baby knew what to do how cute. I would like to try that.
I did infant lead attachment with my son and it was absolutely amazing. It took him almost an hour, and my Doula taped most of it but I haven't watched the tape back. When I get around to doing my birth story I'll write about it. It was the most unreal thing to experience, he knew exactly what to do.
Lv Spring
awesome!!
*bump*
So has anyone else tried it? We're thinking of giving it a go when our little princess arrives :)
We kind of attempted it Sarah. Abbey made her way to it with her head eventually. It is hard to do sitting up in a pool though :D
Yes, we did it Sarah - it was absolutely fantastic!!
After DD was born we first had cuddles, and then i think DH had some cuddles whilst they were finishing off the stitching. Then my obs left and the nurse and Kelly helped me to take off my top and were there to help me (i felt pretty weak from everything, and i was worried if he rolled to the side i wouldn't catch her)... It took a little while (maybe 20-30 mins in total?), for her to work her way up my stomach and find the breast, and then she needed a bit of help shaping the breast to latch on (she was very small - 2770g so we gave her a bit of help!), but once she was on she was going great guns!
She had both sides (Kelly even missed out on a cuddle), and then less than an hr later had another feed (greedy guts!)... It was so incredible to watch her, she knew what to go for and exactly what to do... And it seemed so much more gentle than with DS where the nurse just kind of forced his head on.
She was been a great feeder ever since - i highly recommend trying it, and i can't wait to do it with the rest of my babies :)
Also, the nurse told me as they push down on your stomach with their feet it is right on the fundus of your uterus so it helps it to contract straight after birth!
I recommend doing it lying down in bed, and take your time, have some cuddles first and then try it when there are less people in the room and its a bit quieter and relaxed! Can't wait to hear the great news from you.
So Yael was that back at the ward or in the labour/delivery room? And did you have it in your birth plan? I've already given mine to the hospital & didn't have it in there.
I thought that this was what happend when babies were born full stop (excl cs). I didn't know that this wasn't the "done thing".
I've been at 4 births (3 of them mine!) and I've never seen it done differently.
So I can tell you, it can be done in ANY position, anywhere and any place a baby has been born. I was squatting on the floor with DD1, they did whisk her up to the heat thing for a minute but I got annoyed and told them to give her back (ah, the arrogance of youth in a private hospital!). I was still on the floor then was helped up to the bed where we continued chest/booby contact.
DS1 was born on the bed, and I'd like to introduce you to the COMMANDO breast crawl. He was born rather quickly, when the midwife lifted him up I leaned forward and pulled him to my tummy. My sister couldn't believe it when he gave an almightly kick and boosted himself up using legs and elbows and latched on. Took him about 4 seconds and he was attaching himself.
DD2 was born in the water, straight to my chest where she stayed until.....
DO IT, DO IT, DO IT! I have always worn something (if at all) that opens right up at the front, and I ony give bubs up for weighing etc when I feel like it.
Go Sarah!
Sarah, i did in in the delievery room, before i got up and had a shower. I didn't have it in my birth plan, but luckily the very pro-natural midwife i had, and Kelly, suggested it to me before i delievered.
It shouldn't be a big deal, it doesn't take much for them to do, and they would be there helping you feed anyway, so i would just go for it (maybe mention it to them when you get there in labour?)
This was all discussed at our ABA meeting last month. Thankfully one of the midwives doing talk is on of my CMP midwives and the other may end up being my doula (depending on when bubs comes). So really nice to now that I will be surrounded by those who know it and appreciate it.
Ok, thought I would *bump* this so others can get the chance to look. I am looking forward to trying this in a months time. Just doing my birth plan now and am plcing it in there. I also mentioned it in booking in at hospital and the mw was keen for us to try.
Being my last and only just finding out about this, I really want this experience. I would love to hear some more stories of those who have done this.
Thanks
i have also been thinking about doing the crawl, DH loved the idea..
hope u get to experience it rose! ;)
I had a beautiful natural waterbirth with DD but BFing ended up a bit of a chalenge in the first couple of weeks (still going strong at 13 months, though). With my next one, I definitely want to give the breast crawl a go. It just looks so right. I always thought it weird that attachment should be so difficult, awkward an downright uncomfortable. Curious to see how it feels when bubs does all the work.
Sasa
Rose, we are planning on doing the breast crawl as it is very much encouraged at both the calmbirth classes and our hospital funnily enough. I think it sounds wonderful and it really does just make sense....
Wow it is amazing what natural instincts little bubbas have that in our culture ignores, i deffinantly want to try this with my next bub.
Maybe I'm the only one here who found this a bit strange and awful for the baby? I watched this when it was first posted up and didn't write anything, but coming across it again, I can't help myself.
What I think of when I watch it is that it looks like something that would need to occur in nature when the mother has died during birth - a survival instinct kind of thing- baby needing to get to the milk because there's no one else there to help her. Yes, it is definitely amazing, but in my opinion a horrible thing to get the baby to do straight after birth. We have arms to help this happen - yes I agree with skin to skin and baby nuzzling to find attachment, but I can't believe the amount of energy expended already for the baby in getting through the birth canal and then you want them to crawl up your chest because you find it beautiful and amazing? I don't know, I obviously don't get it, but it seems a little selfish to me.
star - the reasoning behind this isn't to give the mother a beautiful experience (although that's a nice added benefit) ;) It is to prime the baby to breastfeed well, facilitate strong bonding and to continue the partnership of mother and baby working together to make the immediate postpartum period safer for both of them. As most of us here can testify to, breastfeeding can be very difficult at first and some of that is due to all the interference we and our babies experience, both during labour and straight after.
Barb Glare made an awesome post explaining this a couple of months ago, I'm posting it again here I hope you don't mind barb :D
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Mothers and babies form the most amazing system. Babies are so vulnerable at birth - and yet so capable. Mothers are so powerful. The breastcrawl is an amazing part of the system that makes up birth and breastfeeding.
Babies, full term, and unmedicated and undamaged from the birth process are optimally primed to breastfeed - it is their only source of nutrition for around the first 6 mnths, and their main source of nutrition for 1-2 years or more. Over the years, a fabulous system has developed between mother and child. But one that has been largely lost, by *modern* interventions. When the baby is born, his sense of smell is acute. And so is his eyesight - at a close range - between mother's stomach and nipple and mother's nipple and face. After birth, baby needs to organise his senses, and move at his own pace to the breast. He is born with a "stepping" relex that allows him to "crawl" up his mother's body to the breast. (not very long ago we used to think of this as an archaic reflex - no use now, and believe that newborns couldn't see). As baby crawls, he kneads his mother's stomach with his legs, and kneads her breast with his hands, releasing oxytocin, the "love hormone". This helps her uterus contract, but it also helps her bond with her baby. Not so very long ago (still, unfortunately, in many places) babies were taken from their natural environment - their mother's body - weighed, measured, wrapped like little bundles where they couldn't use their limbs or their senses and had their heads forced onto their mothers breast. Many on this forum will attest to the breastfeeding problems this caused.
Mothers, as well, operate under the influence of these instincts and hormonal cues if they are allowed - in all these films of mothers and babies, mothers do instinctually help their babies, waiting for their cues, rubbing their backs, kissing their babies - falling in love - the love that will last a lifetime.
It is absolutely worth writing *skin to skin* undisturbed time with baby into your birth plan and insisting that your wishes be respected. The world, the visitors, the medical staff can wait. For we mothers, this precious time happens only 1 or two or if we are lucky, three times in our lives these days. The bonds we form underpin our whole mothering experience.
The great thing is that we get a "second chance". for many of us, birth does not, these days, go as planned. But we can regain the magic of that early time by being skin to skin with our baby - in bed or in the bath. As baby relaxes into our body, he regains the instincts he had after birth, and in this undisturbed, peaceful state will often be able to latch on and feed properly.
Wow! Amazing
Thanks for finding this chody, I havnt seen it and I too find it amazing.
i think its beautiful and have already talked to DH about it and he thinks its an awesome idea i just said i just want to have my time with the baby first then everyone else can have their go lol