Hi (again)
I am a breastfeeding peer support counsellor and I am really passionate about helping women who want to breastfeed. I always try to put myself in their shoes i.e just given birth, sore bits, hormones etc and try to give them support through encouragement and patience to enable them to feel positive about themselves and the ability of their bodies to provide for their baby. I am constantly (with the peer group I am in) trying to promote b/feeding to women and talk to women in groups and one to one before they give birth because better informed women are given better support and access help better. In our area we also have a phone line to support women to feed where they can ring a councellor and get advice/ support. The training we have recieved has been really good and we would never touch someone or force mouth to tit.
Some proffesionals don't see us as helping and don't want us to helpwomen on the wards which is a shame because all we would be doing is supporting women to feed in a calm relaxed manner because that is all we are there for.
We are not there to judge just to give TLC and support to enable mums to be fantastic feeders.
Coffeebean
Originally Posted by Lovepants  Ok we all know the babies get the nutrients and they also get all the antibodies need but what does a 21st centurmy mum get???
Lets see if you can do it and you can use the machine you get a overwhelming feeling of satisfaction you are soley providing your childs nutrients and maximising their defences you go to bed feeling great and if your tired you just express it and your other half takes over.
Now lets go to the other side after 9 months endless visits to the Midwife who are promoting breastfeeding there you are in ya hospital bed or at home and you go to put your baby on ya breast something goes wrong so you try something else, still dont work. You press ya button for a midwife she grabs ya tit and puts baby mouth to it, still dont work. By now you think you are a failure you wanna cry you wanna walk out and leave your baby cause even only after a few m,inutes/hours you feel you dont deserve this baby you'r hormones are going wild you are a failure............ |