Christmas day morning & what is pregnant breastfeeding like

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00:00I said to Shea this morning, it's Christmas Day today, and he said, where are the presents?

00:13I explained to him that we don't really do Christmas like that because if he wants something

00:22usually we just buy it for him at the time, and other children may have to wait for Christmas.

00:41Breastfeeding in pregnancy can cause the nipples to be slightly sore, so when Shea latches on

00:48when he starts breastfeeding, it actually hurts for, I don't know, a few seconds and then it passes.

00:55But yeah, it does feel very different breastfeeding while pregnant.

01:00A lot of women have an aversion to breastfeeding while they're pregnant, and that may happen for me.

01:21Right now I'm okay with still breastfeeding Shea, but I've had a lot of friends who are very pro

01:26breastfeeding. They tell me that when they were pregnant with their second child, they found it

01:32very difficult to continue feeding their first child, or to continue feeding them all the way

01:38through the pregnancy anyway. Some women's milk supply diminishes or goes completely, but yeah,

01:47some women continue to let the child suckle, but they don't really get any milk, they just suckle

01:53for comfort, or some women just have to stop completely. I'm not sure how it will be for us,

01:59but I would like to continue feeding Shea as long as he wants to.

02:05Then when the new baby comes, there'll be lots and lots and lots of milk.

02:16They can share the milk then.

02:18That's called tandem breastfeeding.

02:29Would you like to feed at the same time as the new baby when the baby comes?

02:47Hmm.

02:56Hmm.

03:12Babies swim sometimes.

03:16Yeah? Yeah, we took you to baby swimming lessons when you were about four weeks old.

03:23They weren't really lessons, it's just played around in the water, but

03:27when babies are born, they can hold their breath underwater. If you put them underwater

03:34quickly, they know to hold their breath.

03:40So when you go to baby swimming lessons, they help build on that skill.

03:46And you had lots of, I think from when you were four weeks old to about two and a half,

03:53maybe, you went to those swimming lessons. You were very good at it.

04:00You can nearly swim on your own now, can't you? You can nearly hold your head up in the water

04:04yourself. And you never had those armband things, did you? You've had floats sometimes,

04:13you've borrowed floats from people, but you've not really had any older kids swimming lessons.

04:22You've just been figuring it out yourself. And you're ever so good at swimming.

04:33So you know what we're going to do for Christmas Day? We're going to go

04:51to Happy Green Restaurant and we're going to see all our friends there.

04:56We're going to have some nice food that they made. It's a raw food buffet.

05:17Baby Ellen is going to be there. Julia and Paul and Gonja and Velma.

05:26Who's next? And Hannah and Oslo. And who else? I don't know.