Penultimate session this week and the focus was on breast feeding.
We had a demonstration of how a baby attaches itself to the breast - no, not a real life demonstration but with a puppet (which looked like it was straight out of Sesame Street) and what can only be described as a breast made of wool, complete with knitted nipple.
We also discussed some of the complications in breast feeding such as mastitis and engorgement.
We then watched a video on breastfeeding. Did you know that a new born baby, if left alone will eventually find it's way to the mother's breast and start feeding? I don't think we're talking about a 10 metre crawl across the room or anything - I think it has to be fairly close to the breast in the first place... Still, amazing stuff.
Final week next week!
2 comments:
What if they both instinctively found their way to the same breast? Would you let them fight it out, or would you intervene and move one to the other side?
I think it would be much more fun to let them fight it out. They'll be doing plenty of that over the coming years so they might as well start early.
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