Breast foot forward
Effath Yasmin is India’s leading IBCLC, a biodynamic craniosacral therapist from Mumbai, India and founder of Nourish & Nurture. Her special interests lie in infant oral and sucking dysfunction, tongue-tie assessment, treatment and rehabilitation, biomechanics of breastfeeding and treatment of birth trauma, anxiety and depression.
The internet bought about an information avalanche on all subjects, including breastfeeding awareness. As a result, education increased across the world, and breastfeeding is now slowly becoming the norm, as it should have always been. Research clearly shows the importance of breastfeeding babies is normal, desired and complete infant nutrition. Even though nursing your child is natural and normal, many mums may hit roadblocks along the road. We’ve rounded up the 12 commonly-faced breastfeeding challenges, and how to overcome them:
1 Difficulty to latch/attach
While most babies are expected to be able to latch on to the breast right after birth and feed fairly like champions, many newborns have latching and other breastfeeding difficulties right from the start. New mums and babies need time to learn how to breastfeed together, especially if there has been some intervention during birth.
SOLUTION
Most cultures around the world usually encourage new mum and babies to be in a postpartum ‘confinement’ period of 40 days. This helps a mother and baby to bond, and tide
