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The Third Wheel
Your Husband and Breastfeeding
By Armin Brott
What Can You Do?
Start by understanding his feelings – whether or not he expresses them. If you're breastfeeding, you're in the primary parenting role, and you have the power to invite your husband in or to shut him out. "Just as the father is viewed as the primary support of the mother-infant relationship, the mother is the primary support to the father-infant relationship," says Dr. Jordan. "Supporting the father during breastfeeding may help improve his, and consequently the mother's, satisfaction with breastfeeding, the duration of breastfeeding and the adaptation of both parents to parenthood."
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