BREASTFEEDING CUES. This is the English speaking version of a video in Swedish, from babybaby.se, on breastfeeding cues. Here’s the Swedish version: Video: Tidiga amningsssignaler (3 min).
A newborn’s breastfeeding cues
It’s good to know how a newborn baby signals that she or he wants to breastfeed. If you can catch early signals and bring your baby to the breast before he/she gets super hungry and super agitated – then breastfeeding will be easier. It’s so much easier to nurse a baby who’s not crying and screaming out of hunger. So if your desire is to breastfeed your baby, take a moment to learn the cues that are shown in this short video.
My mother-in-law Norah had her first child, my common-law husband’s older brother, the same year I was born, in 1973.
Norah and I got to know each other when our firstborn child, our daughter, was four months old. I was struggling to breastfeed her then, a struggle that felt increasingly impossible and soon ended completely.
My mother-in-law Norah and I have on several occasions talked about breastfeeding and bottle feeding and she has told me she did not nurse her children. Norah is currently visiting us in Sweden. A couple of nights ago I seized the opportunity to interview her about her bottle-feeding and breastfeeding experiences, as a part of my blog series of interviews with women about breastfeeding in past decades.
