BREASTFEEDING A BABY 🤱🏼 5 Mistakes To Avoid

What NOT to do when breastfeeding a baby... Mistakes I made as a first time breastfeeding mom

Your whole pregnancy, you're preparing for birth. Then, as a new mom, postpartum comes and suddenly you're figuring out how to breastfeed and googling breastfeeding positions, should breastfeeding hurt, breastfeeding latch, pumping breast milk, increasing breastmilk supply... the list goes on!

As a first time mom, I made some mistakes when it came to my newborn breastfeeding. I want to help you avoid these challenges and mistakes. This video is filled with breastfeeding tips and answers to questions for how to breastfeed newborn babies.

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[MiVidaBellisima]

Things I learned:
- totally normal to relatch multiple times to not settle for a shallow latch
- feed on demand not a schedule. Wake baby if they haven’t eaten for a while, but otherwise feed whenever baby desires
- too much milk can lead to engorgement
- ideally wait 6wks to start pumping. Can use Hakka passively
- more skin to skin time with parents/family, helps comfort and diversify their microbiome/strengthen immune system

[keeks]

My babies were always satiated with one breast and I would just feed on the other side at the next feed. If they fall asleep and unlatch and then wake then I would switch sides. They tend to eat less on the second breast so I start on that breast at the next feed. Fully breastfeed both my babies beyond one year 💕

[phelion]

First-time mom here with a one-month old baby. I've been exclusively pumping since she's 4 days old as she had jaundice and would not latch properly to eat well, the latter of which caused cracked nipples, which in turn caused mastitis and then thrush in the breasts.

It's been extremely hard for me mentally to be unable to nurse my baby directly, but I'm still healing and I'd have to call it a win with being able to still give her breastmilk for now.

I hope I can revisit this video again in the near future when my baby is older and more coordinated, and when I've recovered both physically and mentally. I only wish that I was prepared for how hard breastfeeding could be before I was thrown into the deep end of it.

[AshleyCrackel]

I would always forget what side I started with which led to engorgement since one side was always being emptied and the other wasn’t. Now I use a hair tie on my wrist and switch it based on which side I started on. I highly recommend this because I was tired of tracking feeds on my phone and wanted to be more present during nursing.

[pinkblossom]

Thank you so much for making these videos and the latch video. I had trouble latching with my son. He was a real fighter 😂 he literally would make his little fists fly when I would try to breastfeed him lol. The main mistakes I made was listening to people who weren't lactation consultants. I had a problem with my left breast it wasn't producing any colostrum. I was able ro get it working after 3days. However everyone kept saying your supply is low! You need to drink these herbs do this and that! I listened and was constantly engorged 🤦🏼‍♀️ One lady said cluster feeding wasn't normal and it was because baby wasn't getting enough milk. People also constantly complained to me about timing feeds. Saying he needs to eat every 30 mins, 1 hr, 2hrs, 15mins, 45 mins. So I was waking the poor boy up to try and feed him 🤦🏼‍♀️.I finally told hubby enough is enough no more advice I will wake at 2hrs if he doesn't wake up by himself otherwise he sleeps. I made a commitment and a plan and it worked. Was easier to BF and after 4wks my son was EBF without issues. Because of those mistakes though I got a lot of sores and Mastisis 😅 My boobs are good now but I hope every First time mama can learn from my mistake which is listen to your gut, baby, pediatrician and lactation consultant only. Will save you a lot of pain.

[chloemurphy-ritland]

Pumping too early on is a hard one. With my first, I ended up needing to pump because of a hospital stay my little guy needed from 3-5 days old (VERY bad jaundice). So he had to be fed in the light bed for most feedings. I was SO scared of him developing nipple confusion so had no intention of bottle feeding for a long time, but it ended up being very nice. I pumped enough for my husband to do one feeding a night via bottle so I could get a stretch of sleep in the first two months, which was amazing for my mental health. Luckily my little man still preferred the breast and we nursed until over two years old. But I did develop a bit of an over supply. I really hope to get my one bottle feeding a night this time around from Hakka collection instead of using the pump. But we will see. 2 more months until my next breastfeeding journey begins! Thanks for the video!

[milamilisavljevic]

Apart from pumping, I made all these mistakes, and it's great to hear I'm not the only one. Thank you!

[kristendomingo]

Something I regret as a first time mom is not pumping earlier. I waited for a month to pump and couldn’t get much (1/2 ounce). The only time I would get 2 ounces was if she hadn’t feed for several hours. I make enough to feed my baby but not enough to make a sufficient stash. I could only leave her for one day before I had to rush back so she would have milk. (My husband and I went on an overnight trip without the baby after 6 months.) This time around I’ll definitely be pumping as soon as we get back from the hospital.

[nataliecoleman]

Pumping too early was mine. The lactation consultant at the hospital told me that I was going to have supply issues since I had PCOS. So she told me to pump 3x daily for 20 minutes on top of feeding baby… and I did because I was terrified of my supply drying up. Well, as it turns out, I was not an underproducer and ended up with a MASSSSIVE oversupply.

[Bananaterricottapie]

I just wanted to leave a quick thank you for your postpartum guided meditations! I had my first baby last year, and was not successful in breastfeeding, and I can not express how devastating that felt. I still tear up thinking about it. Plus I was starting to lose my mind from lack of sleep. You guided meditaions really got me through those rough times, especially the pumping affirmations, and for a short while, your videos were the only way I could fall asleep! My sincerest thank you!!!

[Cub]

Omg the shallow latch almost made me rethink breastfeeding my baby. It for sure caused so much pain in the beginning. These were all good tips. Breastfeeding is so overwhelming for sure. Wish I educated myself on this topic before my first. Pumping is a whole different game. I never used mine bc I am SAHM. But for sure when I have my next few, I would like to learn on how to use mine.

[Acentra]

As a newborn I had to feed on a schedule. She would sleep for 5 to 6 hours straight and at her first weigh lost too much weight. I fed her every 2 hours for the first 4 weeks and then switched to on demand but still keep the 2 hours in mind. It was the only way to get her back to a good weight.

[meetthemuirs]

I actually disagree with mistake number 4. Only because I waited 4 weeks to pump with my first and then I thought to the nail to try to bring up my supply even though I was around My Baby 24 seven or he never went anywhere without her at all for years. And I ended up breast-feeding her for 2 1/2 years. I struggled so bad with my supply. I was Very fortunate that I did not have to go back to work so soon with her otherwise I would’ve had to supplement with formula because there’s no way I would’ve ever pumped enough to make it through going to work even for a couple of hours and I tried everything and I saw multiple lactation consultant to try to help fix it, and it was not working. however, then with my second, I would pump whenever my daughter would be done eating and I would offer both breasts multiple times to make sure that she would eat because she ate quickly, but I would just continuously offer him anyway, but I would pump after she was done eating but I felt like my boobs were still full of milk and they were. Because in the early stages for some reason, she would never empty the breast completely, and not only would that lead to engorgement on my part but also, it would really diminish my supply later on as she is growing. I didn’t do too crazy of pumping sessions are usually only did it once or twice a day and I would get maybe one or 2 ounces. Sometimes not even that, but that really made a huge difference in my supply. So I feel like it’s not a bad thing to pump earlier on just because sometimes you don’t know if you’re going to have an under supply or not and then when you get to the point that you realize that you are in over supplier then maybe cut out the pumping sessions and work from there. But also, you never know what life is going to throw you and you never know if somethings gonna happen and you need that freezer stash. Maybe something happens to you and you have to go back to the hospital or God forbid anything else happens and it’s in the middle of the night and you have nothing in the freezer to feed your baby and you don’t have any formula and can’t buy it because it’s late. Because that almost happened to me, but I was fortunate enough that I had pumped just barely enough because I didn’t pump a lot. To get her through the couple of hours I ended up having to be gone. And then, eventually when I started going back to work soon at around four months, I was able to actually pump enough to be able to go to work since I had already been pumping that whole time and building my stash. And again I didn’t pump all crazy like or anything. It was always after my daughter had eaten.

[haley]

Too many moms are discouraged by poor latching early on. Its OK and developmentally normal for your newborn to need LOTS of practice. Just like eventually when they learn to walk - they need tons of practice and they fall down a lot but they don’t quit!

[ShadesofSage]

Great video 🤗! I’m a doula and momma of 4 and I exclusively nursed all my children at least a year. Feeding on demand is definitely the way to go. Baby is best at establishing and regulating that breast milk supply. I see so many moms pumping straight out of the hospital and it really is unnecessary unless mom plans on being away from baby for an extended period of time. I only pumped with my first while she was in NICU. Also remember breast feeding IS a form of skin to skin ❤! I wish all mommas the best on their breastfeeding journey 🙏🏿!

[Strawberrygoldd]

Your breathing methods during labour helped me with both births❤️ my midwifes were suprised

[raining_trees]

I was planning on pumping just a bottle or two's worth from the beginning. I saw a tip about letting someone else bottle feed the baby once a day so that they get used to it, and so that I'm not the only one capable of feeding him. I'm hoping he'll have a good latch so we can do that! But I'll also be mindful about pumping causing overproducing. Thanks for the video!💖

[luciaochoa]

Thank you for making these types of videos. I wish I had known this information when I had my first baby, but I am glad I know now. My second baby is close to three months old and he is thriving on breast milk!

[lz]

I had a pretty good breastfeeding journey the first 6 weeks (with the usual beginning struggles I would say). After that I had a little accident and with the immense stress and panic in my body for that accident my milk supply went down to zero. Now I am trying so hard to get back to where we were before, when she is done with the breasts and is still hungry, she gets a bottle and I pump to bring the supply up again. I would have never thought breastfeeding would be such a science… I have so much LOVE and respect for mammas doing the job. ❤

[rachelc]

Is it possible to just exclusively breastfeed? I don’t want to pump/use bottles and just want to know how to prepare if it is possible! Thank you!