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And so your special day arrives and you meet baby after all of those months of waiting. What will he/she look like? How will baby feel? Will I know what to do? …So many questions running through your mind as the little one is passed to you to hold for the first time. You are likely to feel a mix of emotions especially if you have had a long labour or the birth has been different than you had planned or hoped for.… Relax and capture that unique moment, both you and your baby are blessed with the instincts to know what to do immediately. Your skin is keeping baby warm, and he/she relaxes to the beat of your heart and the rhythm of your breathing. Baby knows your voice and feels safe and calm. Very soon your baby will start to become interested in feeding from you, licking, nuzzling, turning and bobbing their little head, or twisting their whole body. Within the first half hour of your birth, baby has naturally found your nipple on their own…and so the magical journey begins…
Tracy Thomas-Clinical Director/Breast feeding counsellor-UKBC)
A message to midwives;
Do good without show or fuss
Facilitate what is happening rather than what you think ought to be happening
If you must take the lead, lead so the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge
When the baby is born, the mother will rightly say: “We did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu. The book of the way, c.500 BC.
A mother understands what a child does not say (Jewish proverb)
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