Breastfeeding – 4 Day Old After Tongue-tie Release With Compressions The baby just had a tongue tie release. The mother is doing compressions appropriately. She waits to see if the baby is drinking or not (pause in the chin). If the baby is not drinking, she compresses, holds the compression until the baby stops sucking or stops drinking and then releases. She waits for the baby to start sucking and if the baby starts sucking but does not drink, she repeats the process. NOTE This video is courtesy of…
Breastfeeding – Baby 28 Hours Old Assisted Latching Shows latching on. Not perfect, but good enough. The mother had no pain. It did take two tries to get the baby to latch on, but thats okay; theres no point in trying to force a baby who does not take the breast to stay on the breast. It wont work. Note the baby has an asymmetric latch, with the chin touching the breast, the nose not touching the breast, and he covers more of the areola with his lower lip…
This baby is drinking very well at the breast. The pause in the chin as the baby opens his mouth to the maximum, just before closing his mouth, indicates his mouth is filling up with milk; the longer the pause, the more milk the baby is taking in. Thus, it is obvious that the advice to feed the baby 20 minutes (10 minutes, 30 minutes, whatever) on each makes no sense. A baby who drinks as this baby drinks for 20 minutes on the first side could easily refuse…
Nibbling This baby is eight weeks old and is doing almost no drinking, though very occasionally one sees a short pause in the baby’s chin. A baby who breastfeeds only with this type of sucking could stay on the breast for hours and still not get enough milk. Something needs to be done here and if achieving a better latch, using compression doesnt help, the baby almost certainly needs to be supplemented. The best way to supplement the baby is with a lactation aid at the breast. Why? 1.…
This is an older baby, about 3 or 4 months of age, whose mother’s breast milk production has decreased. Following Early Good Weight Gain by the mother, for some reasons this decrease in milk production might occur. Some of the reasons that may result in a decreased milk production include the mother’s usage of a hormonal birth control method (including hormone releasing intrauterine devices or intra-vaginal hormone releasing rings). The mother’s feeding one breast at a feeding “as a rule” instead of “finishing” one side and then offering the…
Breastfeeding – Baby 28 hrs old, Baby-Led Mother-Guided Latching The baby starts searching for the breast. The mother guides him towards the nipple. The baby opens up fairly wide, but the mother does not bring the baby on as well as she could and the baby has a shallow latch. He should have more of the breast in his mouth. The baby is mostly nibbling at first though there is an occasional pause in the movement of the chin (see other videos showing good drinking). The mother starts compressing…
