The most remarkable breastfeeding is that everything you need to feed your child is always with you, always available and stored at the right temperature, wherever you are. But although breastfeeding is the most natural way to feed the child, most young mothers are nervous if they have to feed the child in a public place, because they are afraid of oblique views of others. If you really take care of the opinions of others, we offer some tips that make the feeding process is comfortable for everyone.
Practice in advance
If you are experiencing anxiety about breastfeeding in public places, try to practice at home in front of the mirror to see how you look from the side during feeding. You will probably notice that the child's head will cover the breast at the time he will suck milk. In order for others to not see your body, take a light cotton scarf or a sweatshirt that you can throw on a child and your shoulders.
Buy clothes for feeding
The main inconvenience causes the process of dressing: you need to tie a T-shirt, talking to the chest, and after feeding it turns back. Special clothing and laundry for nursing mothers solves the problem: you will need to open the buttons, unbutton the lock or at all lift the fabric layer to open the chest to the child. In proper clothes, it is easily done with one hand. An alternative to special clothing - wide elastic T-shirts, dresses with lightning or smell on the chest.
Choose a comfortable place where you feel comfortable
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Make a list of comfortable places
In many shopping centers, parks, at the station and at airports there are rooms of a mother and a child, where you can find all the necessary consumables like napkins, disposable diapers and other things that the administration provides for free to their mother for their convenience. Also ask, in which cafes you can quietly feed - find a couple of your favorite places, where you are always happy with the children and will be able to give you a secluded corner for feeding a child. Ask at the local forum Mom, where they can safely feed the child. Over time, you will get used to feed a child and can do it so that others do not even pay attention to you.
Know your rights
In many countries, you have the right to breastfeed anywhere, open to the public, and there are laws that protect nursing mothers. In Russia, the creation of such a law is only discussed, but also the rules prohibiting you to feed in a public place, no. In certain regions, however, laws on information and material support of natural feeding are developed. So in the Volgograd region there is a law "On propaganda and supporting breastfeeding", in accordance with which for nursing mothers prepared separate rooms for feeding in hospitals and other institutions, and doctors were obliged to abandon the advertising of mixtures and material support from representatives of companies.
Jump milk
If you understand that you go to the place where the child feed will be inconvenient, later the milk manually or with the help of breasts. After that, put a bottle into the refrigerator, and in a cafe or other public place to warm it up in a water bath. If there is no such possibility, put the bottle on the table - it herself heats up to room temperature. Do not warm the milk on the stove or in the microwave - it will come.