Happy World Breastfeeding Week!

The purpose of this page is to align our patient’s experience from Prenatal Education through Labor, Delivery and Postpartum.

Please enjoy the following video presentations to expand your own professional understanding of the value we offer to freshly birthed families, as well as sharing the Parent Education videos to your patients at the bedside.

How can doctors, midwives and nurses set a family up for the best breastfeeding experience, while still caring for responsibilities?

Whether the birth takes place vaginally or surgically, we can all do our part to make time and space for mother and baby to have the gentlest transition from womb to world. Imagine what it must be like to be a brand new human: What is this gravity thing? Why are my movements that used to be in a world of warm water, now so jerky? Who turned on all these LIGHTS? Whose voices are these? What is this new feeling: hunger?

In placing baby immediately skin to skin, we facilitate higher oxytocin in both mother and baby. With fewer interruptions we keep norepinephrine at bay, reducing the risk of postpartum hemorrhage and increase the chances of earlier breastfeeding and higher glucose levels in the newborn.

Watch the scenarios below and notice how these small changes can make a huge difference, one family at a time!

The First Hour Following Birth: Don’t Wake the Mother!

by Michel Odent

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Michel Odent, MD - As a researcher Michel Odent founded the Primal Health Research Center in London, England, which focuses on the long-term consequences of early experiences. An overview of the Primal Health Research data bank www.primalhealthresea… — **Michel Odent**, **MD -** As a researcher Michel Odent founded the Primal Health Research Center in London, England, which focuses on the long-term consequences of early experiences. An overview of the Primal Health Research data bank www.primalhealthresearch.com demonstrates how health is shaped during the primal period (from conception until the first birthday). The research also suggests that the way we are born has *long-term consequences* for sociability, aggressiveness—in other words, for *our capacity to love.*

Perspective 1: The sudden need to breathe

Perspective 2: The behavioral effects of hormones
Perspective 3: The perspective of ethologists
Perspective 4: The first hour as the beginning of lactation
Perspective 5: First hour and metabolic adaptation
Perspective 6: The bacteriological point of view
Perspective 7: Starting up the process of thermoregulation
Perspective 8: Adaptation to gravity
Perspective 9: The ethnological approach
Perspective 10: The obstetrical approach
Perspective 11: The midwifery approach
Perspective 12: A Political Note

Womb to World: A Metabolic Perspective

by Suzanne Colson

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This article summarizes the content of a practice development project called CATCHTM. Funded by the UK Department of Health, South Bank University and E. Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, CATCHTM aims to catch in a breastfeeding safety net those mothers who stop breastfeeding during the first two postnatal weeks

Here are some video shorts that can help the busy nurse!

A picture may be worth a thousand words, and a thousand pictures make a video! There’s nothing like seeing it done, then doing it!

Show her
Help her put it into practice
Cheer her on for future success!

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We hope this little gift is helpful to you in your everyday work practices. If there is any other content that you would find helpful, please feel free to reach out to Brenda. She has been training doulas, labor & delivery nurses and parents for almost 30 years and would love to help you help others to encourage Healthy Birth & Parenting practices!