Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
[MUSIC PLAYING]
-She's coming.
-Look, it's come out now.
Baby is coming out now.
-Newborn babies are place straight on their mothers
when they're born, to help with bonding and attachment.
Skin-to-skin is the best way to keep babies
at a perfect temperature.
And it will encourage baby Deanna Lee
to try her first taste of breast milk.
Lindsey went into laboUr earlier this evening.
And her second son Ben was born half an hour
after arriving at the hospital.
-It's a boy.
-I'm pretty sure it's a boy.
-Very surreal-- I don't know.
It's just an amazing feeling really, to be handed a baby.
-Newborn babies will start looking around
for food, usually within the first hour.
-She's sort of giving all those little messages that she'd
like to start going to the ***.
-If you turn her over, just turn her over tummy to tummy.
-I need to support her.
I'm just so scared.
-Always remember, tummy to tummy.
-Tummy to tummy, hon.
-Now, can you see that?
See how she's opening her mouth, and she's
starting to suck her tongue?
She's really exploring you, getting to know you,
that smell of you.
And that's the essential thing for her to start breastfeeding.
-Breastfeeding is so instinctive for babies that, if left,
they will crawl towards your breast
and latch on by themselves.
-Can you see how that was a beautiful, wide, wide
open mouth?
Now, can you see that tongue at the bottom?
Look at that.
And you can feel that suction?
-Yeah, I can.
-And it's that lovely rhythm of suck, suck, suck.
And she'll rest for a few seconds.
And she's done that all on her own, you know,
getting there all on her own.
That's really important over today and the next couple
of days, that she just feeds whenever she needs to feed, ok.
Because the colostrum, which is the milk that you've got there
at the moment, which is a nice, goldy colour,
is not high in volume, but it's high in calories goodness
and antibodies for the baby.
It protects the baby from bugs, from infections and viruses
that are around.
I often say to ladies, it's gold.
It's as valuable as gold.
-Right here?
-Yes.
If you touch his head, he'll--
-Although Lindsey breastfed her first son,
she's finding that all babies are different.
-So hand right around the base of his lip,
around his shoulders, sitting his chin
on the areola and nose to *** and then bringing him
onto the breast, rather than the breast to him.
-OK, hop on.
-He's really keen now.
And bring him onto the breast.
That's the story.
Sometime, it can take a couple of good latches
to get him going properly.
-So different from Jack.
Jack just went on and didn't come off.
OK, baby.
-Well, it was a very rapid birth for this one.
Now, that looks like a good latch, little guy.
-Yeah, he's moving it right now.
-Now, how is it feeling?
-It feels good.
It feels fine.
-So the deep drawing sensation, rather than a nipping,
biting?
-Yes.
-So you can see his jaws moving right up to his ear.
And sometimes the ear moves.
And also, if he's latched on well,
his little bottom lip will be tucked down.
You can see now, his little bottom lip is not tucked down.
So do you know how to safely delatch your baby?
See, now he's on your ***.
-He's on properly.
Come on.
Come on.
-Lindsey is exhausted after the birth and needs of rest.
So Tony is bonding with this new baby, skin to skin.
-It's nice.
It's an amazing feeling actually.
-He's got big feet too.
-Look at his big toe.
-First time mom, Novalee is 12 days overdue
and has been induced.
Her baby's heart rate dropped in utero.
So as soon as she was born, she was placed skin to skin
on Novalee.
And she's doing fine.
In fact, she's hungry.
You'll know your baby is hungry by watching for her hunger
cues, which include licking lips,
sucking noises, sucking hands, or turning
her head from side to side.
-When she is making that noise, it's an indication
that she's not on properly, as you can hear.
-If you miss these hunger cues, your baby will cry.
Try not to let it get to this stage,
or she'll be too upset to feed well.
-Here you go.
-Not really much of a noise, if they latched on
properly, a nice, little clicking sound or sucking,
like that, kind of quiet.
And her cheeks shouldn't sort of dimple a little.
If your sort of seeing her cheeks dimple,
you know she's not on properly.
She's just sucking at the end of your ***.
-So you don't need to give her anything else while we're here?
-Just the colostrum and just feeding
her often will help bring your milk in and help
bring in a decent supply.
You know, it just seems strange that she
was fed right up until, you know, from the placenta.
And now, she appears to have taken
to something so naturally.
-She's slipping off a little bit.
She's having to think about it.
-The baby will be feeding on the fat-enriched colostrum,
for the first two to three days, until your milk comes in.
-It's an interesting feeling, to know
that it's not just about me anymore.
Something is dependent on me for life, for food.