Breast Feeding is one of the most beautiful and natural thing that a woman experiences during motherhood. Sometimes an erotic point, breastfeeding has its own complexities and can generate certain issues for moms. Here are a few tips which guide for proper breastfeeding, for safety of your child.
1. Proper Breastfeeding Knowledge: Breastfeeding is considered to be a good activity for you as well as your baby. There are some hospitals and pregnancy care centre, who actually give lessons on proper breast feeding. Join these for the well being of you and your baby.
2. Are you feeding your baby enough, this feeing will nag you all the time: You will never be sure or satisfied about, whether you are feeding your baby enough. You will constantly weigh your baby to ensure you are giving him enough to feed.
3. First time experience will be jittery, you will need help: Apart from the breast feeding classes you need to extra prepare yourself for it. First time lactation won’t be much of a pleasant experience therefore you can consult a book or internet or ask a hospital nurse for help.
4. You might not be comfortable with it in the beginning: There might be a lot of issues related to breast feeding. Raw nipples or sore nipples cause a lot of pain. Engorgement makes your breasts hard and enormously huge but the pain which comes along with it is sometime unbearable.
5. Snobbish Behaviour of Breast Feeding moms: You will become quite obsessed with the formula and might keep the free sample of the formula away from everyone in case you need it for some kind of emergency or more importantly an imaginary emergency. Suddenly you are a freaked out mom.
6. Follow your own rules while breastfeeding, do not be too dependent on your help source: It is not necessary that all the breast feeding counsellors are always right, all women are different from each other so are their babies. So it is not necessary that you will suffer from the same problems and your problems will have the same solutions.
7. Memorable breast feed: The first perfect breast feed is one of the most memorable moments of a mother’s life. When you watch your baby sucking on to your breast and feeding you are awed by the fact that you actually did it.
8. Breast Pumps are extremely helpful: If you are working woman and have rejoined your work within a few months of having your baby then breast pumping is the best way to lactate and save milk for your baby. Although it is a painful task but it helps you a lot.
9. Breast feeding reduces desire for sex: Breast feeding can dry out the energy out of some moms to have sex. Moreover, due to the breast feeding hormones it causes dryness down there and you do not feel like getting some action done.
10. Don’t give up: At first you will feel that it is close to impossible and will be frustrated when you are unable to breast feed properly. You will be depressed and sad and angry. It is only a matter of time for you to become perfect in it.
11. Breastfeeding will make you hungry: Breast feeding your baby will increase your hunger. After breast feeding your baby you will find your stomach growling with hunger. You will find yourself eating more than usual.
12. Jealousy against your partner: Your husband would like to help you in taking care of the baby but for some reason you won’t like it. You will feel a certain amount of jealousy when you see your husband feeding your baby. You will always want to be involved in every little activity of your baby’s life.
13. Confused feelings about breast feeding: There are a lot of matter to read on the pros and cons of breast feeding. Some will make you feel good and tell you it is the best thing for your baby while some might make you think what if something goes wrong while you are feeding.
14. Breast feeding in Public places: Once you get used to breast feeding you will feed your baby in any public place and won’t be uncomfortable about it. At that time your baby’s needs will matter more to you than staring eyes of strangers.
15. Pumping should be started soon: This will help you to stock up your breast milk for future use and keep it in your freezer. It will come in real handy when you will rejoin your work and won’t be with your baby all day long to feed.
16. Nursing Bras: Nursing Bras have their own pros and cons. On one hand they are extremely comfortable, easy to wear and handy in pumping. While on the other hand they make your breasts look giant and ugly and are extremely pricey.
17. Breasts are off limits: You will feel that your breasts belong to your baby only and won’t let your husband even touch them. You will keep them off limits in sex because you probably think they have lost their sex appeal because of all the milk. But that is not true, they are still boobs and your husband will always find them sexy.
18. Pump whenever you lactate: This will help you to take out all the milk that your body is preparing. It is essential take out all the milk for the betterment of your health.
Breastfeeding is one of the natural ways of feeding your baby. These tips will help you to enjoy this beautiful part of motherhood.