This
includes doing the same things any mother would do for good
breastfeeding management (nursing frequently,
on demand, etc.), but may involve doing a bit more.
Ways to increase milk supply would
include having a nursing honeymoon, go to bed and spend 24 to 48 hours skin to skin and
breastfeeding on demand, with your sole focus being
breastfeeding.
But often Traditional cultures don't / didn't have to because they sleep close meaning children feel safe and secure, they
breastfeed on demand (
including night feedings) which allows infants and young children to nurse back to sleep, and they accept that there are reasons for wakings.
We have our baby and listen to our instincts which for lots of us
include;
breastfeeding on demand,
breastfeeding to sleep,
breastfeeding to awake,
breastfeeding during the night (possibly one thousand times) co-sleeping and / or bed sharing and generally having our baby
on our boob or hip most of the time.
Fact:
Breastfeeding directly from the breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and infant, including, among others: infant jaw development, infant control of milk flow, psychological attachment of infant to mother, health benefits for mother that pumping the breast does not achieve, infant's ability to feed on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and breast, nutritional variation of milk during the breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of
Breastfeeding directly from the breast offers significant benefits over bottlefeeding expressed breastmilk for both mother and infant,
including, among others: infant jaw development, infant control of milk flow, psychological attachment of infant to mother, health benefits for mother that pumping the breast does not achieve, infant's ability to feed
on demand, the stimulation and maintenance of mother» smilk supply that pumping alone can not achieve (and some women can not successfully pump), avoidance of problems such as that some babies will not move back and forth easily between bottle and breast, nutritional variation of milk during the
breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of
breastfeeding, that it's cheaper and avoids the need for a variety of feeding equipment, and that breastmilk from the breast is always fresh and free of contaminents.