Overcoming Breastfeeding and Chestfeeding Struggles
Discover the Magic of Laid-back Breastfeeding (a.k.a Biological Nurturing)
The simple act of leaning back offers the following benefits:
1. Your baby’s feeding reflexes become more pronounced (ex. crawling, rooting, grasping, mouth opening) and help them crawl to the breast and latch much more deeply.
2. It takes the pressure off of the nursing parent – you are creating a responsive and supportive feeding environment, but your baby is doing to work of latching and nursing.
3. Gravity supports your baby, so your wrists don’t ache.
4. It promotes relaxation, which aids in oxytocin release and helps more milk flow to the baby.
5. It makes breastfeeding more intuitive and responsive.
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Laid-back breastfeeding or chestfeeding activates essential feeding reflexes in your baby
Laid-back nursing helps with latch
Laid-Back Breastfeeding Video Demonstration
If you’d like to see how to position yourself for laid-back breastfeeding, check out the following video:
References
Colson, S.D. (2012). Biological Nurturing: the laid-back breastfeeding revolution. Midwifery Today, 101, 9-66.
https://midwiferytoday.com/mt-articles/biological-nurturing/
Colson, S.D., Meek, J.H. and Hawdon, J.M. (2008). Optimal positions for the release of primitive neonatal
reflexes stimulating breastfeeding. Early Human Development, 84(7): 441-9. doi:
10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.12.003.
Colson, S.D. (2008). https://www.biologicalnurturing.com/
Image: Wiessinger, D., West, D. and Pitman, T. (2010). The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. New York: Ballantine Books.
Liana Salvador-Watts RN, IBCLC
Liana Salvador-Watts is a Registered Nurse, prenatal educator and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant working in Toronto's West End. Liana believes in reproductive justice, a part of which is the right to chest/breastfeed. Her dream is for all parents to achieve their own lactation goals, whatever they may be. Liana became a lactation consultant so she could contribute towards making that dream a reality. She became certified as an IBCLC in 2014, and launched Rumina Lactation in 2016. Liana is also a former labour and delivery nurse and currently works as a prenatal educator in a downtown Toronto hospital.
For more information about her work you can go to: ruminalactation.com or check out her Facebook page at: facebook.com/ruminalactationTO