Parenting experience

Mother’s instincts are usually right, but if you feel insecure about breastfeeding, these advices can help you:

1. Have plenty of sleep, when the baby is sleeping, take a nap.
2. Drink plenty of fluids, light soups, milk, water, and apple juice.
3. At the beginning try nursing every hour or two to stimulate the milk production if you feel it is a bit slow.
4. Nurse whenever your baby demands it.
5. Commit to only breastfeeding the first four weeks.
6. Get house help, relatives, anyone to cook for you, and take care of you, while you take care of your baby.
7. If you have extra milk, pump the whole quantity out of the breast and freeze it. It will come handy when you leave your baby with someone.
8. Nurse your newborn lying down. It will help you and the baby relax, and nurse in peace. If the milk starts spilling through babies nose, put a small cushion under the baby’s head to lift it. Let your baby rest on the bed while nursing, not on your hand.
9. Eat light foods, chicken soups, Swiss chard, zucchini, boiled potatoes, read meat to renew iron storage after the delivery… Avoid cabbage, lettuce, beans, string beans, fried food.
10. Do not strain yourself; try talking to young mothers going through the same experience as you are.

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