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Teaching Chart Holding Me Touching You Look what I can do 1 Copy

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Double sided & Laminated - A4 (8¼ x 11¾ inches)    Also available: Tear-off sheets & Wall Poster

Designed to help mothers understand the KEY concepts of:

Positioning breastfeeding baby - Stabilizing baby on mothers body

  • Full firm frontal contact

To trigger a cascade of hormonal and reflex behaviours in mother and baby.

  • Stability

 To support strong, controlled reflex movements of a baby’s head, neck and oral area.

  • Mouth to breast alignment

That allows baby to take a deep, comfortable and effective latch - includes the ‘Hamburger Analogy’.

 

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                                                         Janet Fishstrom Dombro,IBCLC,RLC   read more ....

Use the images to show a mother what it means to have:

 

  • Baby’s full-front in firm contact with her body and breast – closely applied.
  • A well supported straight back and open posture to make a flatter space for baby’s body fit underneath her breasts.*
  • Baby’s body “uncurled”, open and prone against her body.
  • The heel of her hand holding baby’s shoulder blades with her fingers relaxed - providing shoulder girdle stability.
  • Baby’s whole body facing and closely applied to her body - providing midline stability for the symmetrical movement of the muscles on both sides of baby’s head neck and oral area.
  • Baby’s chest snug against the base and side of her breast,* chin into the breast, nose away from the breast. Baby’s instinctive latching posture.

 

And how to help her baby take a deep effective mouthful of breast


With baby's tongue and lower jaw deep under the breast, the breast fillling baby's mouth, and the nipple resting at the back of baby’s mouth - a safe place where it cannot be pinched or damaged.

  • Helping baby latch - nipple above top lipHow to offer baby more breast below the nipple.
    • Using the images and the hamburger analogy Glover, R. & Wiessinger, D. (2012
  • Where baby’s bottom lip needs to anchor on her breast for a deep latch
    • Areola size varies – the bottom lip needs to anchor at least 3-4 cm from the base of the nipple

 

 

References & Recommended Reading

 

© Rebecca Glover – Last updated Dec 2012

May be copied for individual educational purposes only. All other reproduction prohibited unless written permission is obtained from the author.