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Your Breastfeeding Roadmap
Plotting a Course for Success
By Ann Calandro, RNC, IBCLC
On the other hand, if the induction does work, your contractions will probably be more forceful and painful than normal contractions. Then the two of you will be more likely to take more and more medications.
Be patient and wait your pregnancy out. Don't have your baby when it is convenient for you or your health care provider. Let your baby pick his own birthday. In some areas, this is a novel idea indeed.
Who says you can't have a natural birth? Women are strong and courageous. Women have been birthing for thousands of years. It is not comfortable, but it is doable. Train for your journey by attending childbirth classes, real ones that teach you useful techniques that will help you deal with contractions in a drug-free way. Babies born medication-free are almost always wonderful breastfeeders. Natural birth is a gift you give yourself. You will carry it with you always and it will be one of your proudest achievements. I kid you not.
Epidurals and all other interventions may negatively affect your breastfeeding. Have you ever wondered why some babies refuse to nurse? Why some babies suck incorrectly? Why some babies fail at breastfeeding, the God-given natural way of supporting life? It is not the baby's fault in most cases. It is the fault of the medication, the vacuum extractor that pulled the baby out and misaligned the jaw and left the baby with a bummer of a headache, the prolonged labor caused by an epidural given too early or one of a whole variety of problems that medically managed birth may cause. Make a birth plan. This is your personal road map. Bring it to the hospital. Share it with your nurse and your physician or midwife. Stick to it.
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