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Home › Articles › Issues for Mom › Your Breastfeeding Roadmap

Your Breastfeeding Roadmap

Plotting a Course for Success

By Ann Calandro, RNC, IBCLC

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Don't just try breastfeeding. Succeed. If you want to assure success with breastfeeding, be proactive and plan ahead. You and you alone are in charge of your success. Don't wait for someone else to make it happen. Be a participant, not an observer. Why? Because there are many seemingly innocent interventions that you can "choose not to choose" that are often the root of breastfeeding problems. Some of these may surprise you.

I'm not going to pussyfoot around and be nice. I have talked to too many mothers lately who have had really difficult problems, many of which probably could have been avoided. Instead, I am going to share a simple roadmap to breastfeeding success. Are you ready?

Step 1: Hit the Books
During your pregnancy, read, read and read about breastfeeding. Make an itinerary. Don't waste your time reading any material that has been published by a maker of infant formula. These booklets are carefully written and omit most of the important information you need to know.

Read books like The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (Plume, 1997), So That's What They're For (Adams Media Corporation, 1998) or Bestfeeding (Celestial Arts, 2000).

Breastfeeding is the most important thing you will ever do for yourself and your baby. Formula-fed babies experience a whole plethora of problems that breastfeeding will avoid. Don't leave your success to chance.

Step 2: Go to Class
Attend La Leche League
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