"Breastfeeding Basics: Tips for New Moms"

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00:00Here we have Emma and Jessica. Put her nose, chin in first and across her shoulder and

00:18just bring her in. You can see that chin is indenting into the breast tissue. Emma needs

00:23to make sure that she sits with her back straight, feet comfortable on the floor and if she can't

00:29quite reach the floor then an old box file or something just to bring her feet up a little

00:33bit so her feet are flat, she's not balancing on her toes. The baby should be in a straight

00:39line, head, neck, shoulders and bottom, pelvis in a straight line and we can see here that

00:45Jessica is. When the baby first goes on the baby will need to pull and stretch the nipple

00:50right to the back of her mouth so it's beyond the junction of the hard and soft palate and

00:55a lot of women experience fleeting pain at that point which is very normal but it should

00:59go perhaps within half a minute. If it continues then there's something wrong with the attachment

01:03and then mum should have the confidence to take the baby off and let her go. Just bring

01:10her in just a little bit closer Emma, just a little bit closer to you, that's it. Just

01:16a little bit deeper into the breast tissue, there's no risk of her sliding off and ending

01:20up on the nipple, she's going to give you pain and discomfort. It's all about positioning

01:24and attachment. Positioning is what you do with your body to make sure that you're comfortable

01:28bringing the baby in and the attachment is how you bring the baby in for a breastfeed.

01:34Baby should be drinking and swallowing, cheeks should be nice and rounded, bottom lip will

01:38be open and there'll be more areola shown by the top lip compared to the bottom lip.

01:46Breast milk obviously contains a lot of antibodies and it protects the baby for however long

01:50the mother is breastfeeding and beyond that. Colostrum is really rich, full of antibodies

01:58which is great for the baby's immune system. The baby has a very small stomach about the

02:02size of a marble or just slightly bigger so it will stretch gradually over the next couple

02:06of days so it doesn't need huge volumes. Round about day two or day three a mum will

02:11experience a slight fullness of the breast, a bit of tingling, feel slightly hard, a bit

02:18warmer. She will know that the milk has increased in yield and she may well see that her baby

02:23feeds slightly different as well, perhaps drinks a little bit more. Engorgement generally

02:30means that there's something wrong with the attachment and there's a difference between

02:33engorgement and fullness and fullness is when the milk is increasing in volume and engorgement

02:38if the baby's not taking all of the milk off that they need to take off to make the breast

02:41comfortable. Osteitis is an inflammation of the breast tissue and it means that the milk

02:47has got a little bit stagnant into the breast and it causes a local inflammation. Sometimes

02:51it can come on very, very quickly. The mum can feel well one minute and totally flu-like

02:55and rubbish the next minute. It persists and you feel unwell and you must seek medical

02:59advice. The candidate organism responsible for thrush likes a nice, warm, moist environment

03:04which the breast and the baby's mouth provides. Thrush or the brush is quite common and a

03:09lot of women with thrush describe soreness on the breast tissue itself and it's there

03:14all the time. It's not just for feeding, so that's how we know that it's nothing to

03:18do with attachment but it might possibly be thrush.

03:21I can see Jessica stretching and ready to come off the breast tissue spontaneously.

03:27Brilliant. That was a typical sort of baby of having a nice feed, being very calm and

03:33then fidgeting a little bit towards the end of the feed and then stretching and then coming

03:37off. So she's self-detached and saying very clearly, I've had what I want from this breast

03:42at this particular time. Thank you very much, mum.

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