Video on breastfeeding technique (11 min)

BREASTFEEDING TECHNIQUE. Here is a video I’ve made with easy-to-understand instructions on how to breastfeed. The video, originally in Swedish, shows breastfeeding sitting up.

In this video I will show how you can hold your baby to get a comfortable breastfeeding position and how you can help your baby to latch on well to your breast.

The content of the video has been fact-checked and approved of by Swedish lactation consultants, all with Swedish breastfeeding organisation Amningshjälpen: Elisabeth Kylberg, Susanne Gräslund and Sarah Vinterlycka. Thank you very much for your help!

Here’s also a series of photos on how to get the baby to latch on well to the breast. The texts are in Swedish, but if you have some basic understanding of Swedish the photo series may be helpful anyway.

Sometimes a baby won’t latch on well in the kind of position seen in the video above, no matter how hard you try. This can in some cases be due to a tongue or lip tie.

But more often than not, babies who have problems latching on may need to get the chance to properly practice his/her own instinctual nursing and ”rooting” behavior. If they get a chance to do this without too much interference from parents, health care staff or others, they can start latching on better pretty much on their own.

Breastfeeding positions that help promote baby’s breastfeeding instincts are often labelled ”laid back” breastfeeding, or ”natural” breastfeeding. Here’s a video I’ve made (in Swedish) that shows you how you can do this: Tillbakalutad amning, ”laid back” (11 min).

Breastfeeding expert Nancy Morbacher also has lots of stuff on Youtube on ”natural breastfeeding”.

Skin to skin contact is very beneficial for breastfeeding. If your baby has trouble latching on well in the beginning, please try ”natural breastfeeding” and see if it works. And, if possible, take baby’s clothes off and let him or her have as much skin to skin contact with you as possible.

For new parents in Sweden:

If you recently gave birth and you’re worried about your baby’s well-being or experience breastfeeding problems, please contact BB again at your hospital.

Many hospitals also have specialized breastfeeding clinics with highly skilled and experienced medical staff.

And don’t hesitate to contact your local volunteer breastfeeding consultants, Amningshjälpen, for help. They can’t give medical advice but can help you in lots of other ways. In Sweden you actually don’t have to call somebody in your area. You can call, text or send an e-mail to anbody from this list and ask for help.

Good luck! Breastfeeding can be hard in the beginning. It’s a learning process for both parents and baby. Practice makes perfect! The more you practice, the easier it will get.

Below you’ll see links to this site’s content and some other useful texts. Almost everything below is in Swedish (so far), but if you understand a little bit of Swedish, you may find something useful anyway.

Läs- och videotips om amning de första dagarna:

Video från babybaby.se: Den första bröstmjölken (10 min)
Sagogrynets blogg: Amning de första dagarna
Tidningen Nära Barn: Amning den första tiden
Babybaby.se: Det hade jag velat veta om amning
Babybaby.se: Mjölkstas!
Babybaby.se: Tänk på detta, BB och BVC!

Ska du eller har du precis börjat att amma och vill ha bästa möjliga information om den första tidens amning rekommenderar jag varmt boken Amning i vardagen av amningsexperten Marit Olanders.

Jag rekommenderar också Amningshjälpens slutna grupp på Facebook. Gruppen, som består av både ”vanliga föräldrar” och erfarna amningsrådgivare, är ett fantastiskt forum för stöd och råd.

Mer om amning på babybaby.se:

Video om amningsteknik (11 min)

Video: Tillbakalutad amning, ”laid back” (11 min)

Bildserie: Bra position och stort tag

17 supertrick när bebisen amningsstrejkar

Kvällsoro, maratonamning och magknip: 17 akuta tips!

22 skäl att läsa på om amning innan du får barn

Video: Amma liggande (9 min)

Video: Den första bröstmjölken (10 min)

Mjölkstas!

Video: Handmjölkning (5 min)

Video: Bröstkompressioner (2 min)