Breastfeeding is the first practical step we can take to protect not only the health
of babies and mothers, but also the health of our planet.
Skin - to - skin contact
between baby and mother immediately following birth helps in bonding and to regulate baby's body temperature.
Her experience encompasses helping
babies and mothers with a wide variety of breastfeeding issues in the first days after birth through the first two years of life.
What should matter is stopping those people claiming to be «educated» and putting
babies and mothers at risk.
These mothers care very much about the outcome, and the best way to have a
healthy baby and mother is a vaginal child birth.
Babies and mothers DO die at hospitals and birthing centers too — sometimes even deaths that were preventable if different choices had been made.
The mounting death toll of midwife attended preventable neonatal deaths and preventable maternal deaths demonstrates that efforts to promote normal birth
kill babies and mothers.
Babies and mothers need about 8 weeks to recover from the birth, establish a breastfeeding routine and build a stable milk supply.
This appears to be a survival mechanism designed to
keep baby and mother, or primary caregiver, close together.
We believe that if you give
Babies and mothers time together that their natural ability to breastfeed will be apparent.
That was good enough to get the population to this point, despite the deaths of
many babies and mothers childbirth.
However, it is very common that she would be in the second stage of labor with not too much more time to go
until baby and mother meet face to face!
Studies show that breast milk provides the best nutrition for your infant's growth and development as well as extremely valuable health benefits
for baby and mother.
At this stage, the medical care for both the
newborn baby and mother is unavoidable, and you may incur huge expenses.
Stopping pro-choice will be killing more
babies and mothers who can't face their problems because they think no one will help them.
Coming soon a photo gallery of latched
on babies and their mother's commentaries on their latch experience illustrating the wide range of normal and potentially problematic latches.
The mother's flow of milk instinctively responds to the baby's cry, and
baby and mother bond emotionally during this time.
A 2014 study that examines nearly 17,000 courses of midwife - led care confirms that among low - risk women, home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for
babies and mothers alike.
As the Lancet Breastfeeding Series stressed in January this year, breastfeeding improves health outcomes for
babies and mothers in rich and poor countries alike (read our summary), as well as benefiting society and the economy as a whole.
First world midwives, regardless of educational background, regardless of international location, regardless of the location at which care is provided, are desperately in need of better education about childbirth, greater understanding of their own limitations, and above all, administrators and thought leaders who understand that midwifery is about
saving babies and mothers and not about extending the employment opportunities of midwives.
And even without tragically permanent consequences, even in the case of a simple hospital transfer
where baby and mother turn out fine, the family is still stuck paying the midwife's bill in addition to the hospital bill.