Although breastfeeding is ?natural? it is not purely instinctive.? Breastfeeding is a learned skill ? learned by both the mother and the baby.? If a mother and baby are helped at the start they are far less likely to have breastfeeding problems later.
A postpartum doula can help you with any of the following:
- Make breastfeeding successful right from the beginning that is the first few days from birth
- How to read the clue when your baby is hungry
- Sore or bleeding nipples
- Engorgement
- “Fussy” baby
- Advice on proper latching
- A baby who never seems to stop feeding or sleeps at the breast without sucking vigorously
- A sleepy baby who does not wake to nurse
- A baby who chokes and sputters at the beginning of a nursing
- If supplements have been suggested and you’d like to supplement while still encouraging breastfeeding
- When baby is separated from mummy, for example, in the case of jaundice treatment
- Low milk supply
- Massaging latching breasts