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Virgen de la Leche.Antón Peris.Museo BBAA.Valencia.

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Virgen de la Leche.Antón Peris.Museo BBAA.Valencia.
Les âges de l´ouvrier.Leon Frédéric.Détail.1895-7.Musée d´Orsay.Paris.

Breastfeeding tips
The first time

 Virgen de la Leche.Antón Peris.Museo BBAA.Valencia.
Les âges de l´ouvrier.Leon Frédéric.Détail.1895-7.Musée d´Orsay.Paris.

Try to place baby at the breast as soon as possible after birth. Ideally, this will happen right in the delivery room. Ensure that your practitioner will allow you to nurse in the birthing or delivery room if all goes normal.
Babies only minutes old will often crawl up to the breast from the mother's abdomen, and start breastfeeding all by themselves. This process may take up to an hour or longer, but the mother and baby should be given this time together to start learning about each other. Babies who "self-attach" run into far fewer breastfeeding problems. This skin-to-skin contact will also help keep the child warm.
Adapted from: http://www.pregnancy-info.net/breastfeeding_tips.html


GHIRLANDAIO, Domenico. Birth of St John the Baptist.1486-90.Fresco.
Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
 The small St John is being breast fed by a young nurse in the foreground, and a servant is already stretching her arms out energetically for him, in order to give the newborn a bath in a green bowl. Behind them, Ghirlandaio has clearly shown the position the mother is lying in under the blankets. Her bed is made the same way that beds are made in Italy to this day - a white linen sheet turned down at the top end over a woollen blanket.
Adapted from:http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
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