A few days ago we showed you the video of Isasaweis talking about breastfeeding and one of the conclusions I drew is that the aunt cured it herself alone despite the many doubts that were appearing along the way. Some said some things, others others, and between her and her partner they decided to calm down and go dodging potholes as they arrived, looking for information to solve these problems.
However he confessed that there was a time when they were about to throw in the towel, a situation that occurs in many women, not always with the same end. Some decide to keep trying and others decide they can't go on that way (eye, I'm not judging).
The fact is that when I saw the video I thought that Isasaweis I would not have had so many doubts nor would I have been about to stop breastfeeding if instead of being informed in search of solutions I had been informed in a preventive way, that is to say, going to a breastfeeding support group while still pregnant.
Breastfeeding doesn't always "go out alone"
A few days ago I listened by chance (I almost always hear everything by chance) to a pregnant woman telling another that she was thinking of going to a group of pregnant or breastfeeding mothers to learn how to breastfeed because, of course, how was her First child, "I have no idea how it's done."
The friend, already a mother, far from giving her reason or encouraging her in her decision to inform and train herself, told her that it was not necessary, that “when the baby comes out you put it on and leave alone”.
I said nothing because, educated that it is one, it is not a plan to walk by getting into the conversations of others, but although it is true that most times breastfeeding comes out alone, it is also true that many times the thing does not come out and look, if they still help you, great, but how many mothers have explained “how bad breastfeeding was because nobody knew how to help me” and how many mothers have believed even that the thing did not come out when they were dating (distrust and fear of be doing it wrong and doing a bad thing to the baby).
Well, I thought the friend was partly right, but knowing does not take place, so as prevention is better than cure, one of the best advice I can offer as a nurse and as a father is that Mother (and even the father, if he can go), should go to a breastfeeding support group If you want to be prepared to breastfeed your baby and arrive at the delivery full of information about it.
Find out about breastfeeding before giving birth
It is important and advisable to know how many more things better before giving birth, both about the baby and about breastfeeding and other issues, because the more answers the mother has, the more easily she can solve the questions that appear once the baby is born. And if at any time when she is a mother she does not know or does not remember something, she knows who to go to answer that question (people she already knows).
There are breastfeeding courses, there are pre-delivery classes in health centers and there is something worth millions, but it is free, as are the support groups for nursing mothers, in which mothers and pregnant women exchange words, time and experience (and experiences), producing a beastly learning (you see other mothers with problems, breastfeeding, not doing it, explaining what is going well, what is going wrong, etc.).
Breastfeeding support groups in Spain
If you are pregnant and in the end you decide to go to a nearby breastfeeding group, look here, on the IHAN (Initiative for the Humanization of Birth and Breastfeeding Initiative) page and look for which one suits you best.
You don't need to talk too much (in case you're introverted), because only by listening do you learn a lot and, if you have doubts or they arise as the mothers talk to each other, they will of course help you clarify them.
