Feeding your baby

[DrRebeccaChicot]

Feeding your baby is a wonderful bonding time. In this video our breastfeeding expert Sally Tedstone (from UNICEF UK Babyfriendly) shows you how to a latch on your baby properly to breastfeed with the help of demos from wonderful breastfeeding mums from around the UK.

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[pinkymoo]

What about those people who are unable to breastfeed?

[DrRebeccaChicot Administrator in reply to pinkymoo]

Hi Pinkymoo, thanks for getting in touch. We have a lovely video which I will post on how you can have a lovely bonding time during a bottlefeed and respond to your baby's hunger cues etc. We are just launching the community and that was just the first video we uploaded but we have a whole selection of bottle feeding that we are excited to share with you.

[DrRebeccaChicot Administrator in reply to pinkymoo]

Hi there pinkymoo here is the video about bonding and bottle feeding that I mentioned. I will be posting it to the community but wanted to share it with your first:

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[pinkymoo in reply to DrRebeccaChicot]

Thanks. Didn't want to sound balshy but there are some mums out there like myself who wanted to breastfeed and have had trouble doing so and have made the difficult decision to switch to formula. A big thing is made of breastfeeding (rightly so) and it can sometimes make those who've had to make the switch alienated.

I'm glad there is a video about bonding as I feel I lost some of that special connection when I went to the bottle. Thankfully I've had good support from family, friends and my health visitor and Dr.

Thank you for posting the video.

[DrRebeccaChicot Administrator in reply to pinkymoo]

Thanks for getting back to me pinkymoo. From our own personal experience at The Essential Parent Company we know how devastating it is to struggle with breastfeeding.

For this reason we wanted to really support mums who are just starting breastfeeding to get support to establish breastfeeding, get a comfortable latch and build milk supply so we produced a full video guide.

We also were determined to support new mums who were formula feeding and produced a formula feeding course too. We want all mums to feel confident and happy when they feed their babies but sadly so many mums are let down when they are trying to learn to breastfeed or starting formula feeding and we just feel such solidarity and tenderness towards all new mums.

I am so sorry you struggled with breastfeeding and felt alienated when you moved to bottle feeing but I am so glad that you had such good support in the end.

[DrRebeccaChicot Administrator]

Thanks abigaillaine1