Pregnancy Videos | Baby First Latch On
April 21, 2008
Pregnancy Videos on how your child able to get a proper latch to prevent sore nipples and overfull breasts (engorgement). Step on making milk flow properly, stimulate a good milk supply that satisfy your baby’s appetite.
Pregnancy Video – First Latch
Summary of the pregnancy videos
This is pregnancy video First Latch by the wonderful Dr Jack Newman, showing a classic cross-cradle hold, and a baby latching well. Notice how gentle and respectful of the baby Dr Newman, and the mother, are. Only two interventions happen – one to pull the baby’s hand gently out of the camera view – so you can see what’s happening, and one very gentle encouraging finger to the chin after latch has happened.
This baby is small and quite young. Notice how easily the mother is supporting the baby’s shoulders and neck, and managing to keep the length of the baby’s body snug and secure across her body. This can be an excellent hold for new mothers, but all that’s important is that you and baby are comfortable, and the breastfeeding is working well. As baby gets older, and heavier, Mum and Baby will find different holds that keep them both feeling supported and happy.
The important part of this video is what’s happening at the mouth/nipple exchange. You hear Dr Newman say to wait for the ‘gape’ and then you let baby attach. The point is that quite a lot of breast needs to go into the mouth, for milk to transfer.
Baby having too shallow a latch is a classic way to have sore nipples. If it’s painful – something is wrong!
Incidentally that jaw action you see is one reason breastfeeding contributes so much to the overall development of the baby – that jaw action is working on moving the plates in the baby’s head back into place from the birth canal squish, and is building excellent muscle tone in the jaw and face, helping build up to good chewing and speaking skills.
Pregnancy Videos | Breastfeeding Positions
April 19, 2008
There are few positions for breastfeeding but finding a position that mummy is comfortable with and your baby able to latch to mummy breast easily is what really count. The positions for breastfeeding are Clutch (Football) Hold, Cradle Hold, Cross-Cradle (Transition) Hold, Lying Down (Lying on Side or Flat on Back). There few pointers that mummy have to take notes of when breastfeeding your baby are:
- Find a comfortable place to breastfeed
- Choose a supportive chair with arm rests when nursing your baby sitting up
- Skin-to-skin contact with mummy will stimulates your baby.
- Keep them them awake and alert during breastfeed.
- Do not swaddle your baby while nursing.
- Get several pillows handy for comfort.
- Tuck your baby in close, make sure her whole body is well supported and her head, neck, and back are in a straight line.
- You shouldn’t be leaning back or forward as you get ready to bring your baby to your breast.
You have to try a few nursing positions to see what works best for you and your baby during your baby’s first weeks.
Pregnancy videos on Breastfeeding Positions
The breastfeeding positions summary
Clutch (Football) Hold
When this works best: This can be one of the easiest positions to use with a newborn. It works well if you have large breasts, if your baby has latch-on or sucking problems, if you’ve had a cesarean, if your baby arches at the breast, if you have a rapid milk ejection reflex, if your baby is small, or if you have twins. This position allows you to see your baby latch on, giving you better control.
How to do it: Sit in a comfortable chair. Use pillows, if needed, under your baby to bring her to breast level, and for support under your arm. In this position, your baby is lying alongside you, upper back resting on your forearm with her neck supported by your hand. Her head faces your breast. Your hips are flexed, bottom rests against the chair back, and feet point to the ceiling. Your opposite hand will support your breast. Your baby should not be so far forward that she has to bend her neck to latch on.
Cradle Hold
When this works best: Experienced breastfeeding moms will be most comfortable with this common position. New moms often find it difficult to control the baby’s head and watch latch-on in this position.
How to do it: Sit in a comfortable chair. Use pillows, if needed, under your baby to bring her to breast level and for support under your forearm. Your baby will be on her side, her chest facing your chest. Make sure her lower arm is comfortably placed along her side. When nursing from the left breast, cradle your baby’s head in the crook of the left arm, and her back will be along your inner arm and palm. If you look down at your little one, you will see her side. Use the opposite hand to support your breast.
Cross-Cradle (Transition) Hold
When this works best: This position works well for feeding a newborn, for babies with difficulty latching (and staying) on, and for small or premature babies. This position allows you to see your baby latch on, giving you better control.
How to do it: Sit in a comfortable chair. Support your baby with a pillow on your lap to raise her to breast level, and use pillows as needed to support your arms and hands. Your baby will be lying on her side, facing you. Support your breast with the hand on the side that you will feed your baby (left breast, left hand). Use your other arm to support your baby’s body. Guide her to your breast, placing your hand on her neck, the palm of your hand between her shoulder blades.
Lying Down (Lying on Side or Flat on Back)
When this works best: Lying down can be very helpful when a baby is having trouble nursing. It is also a good choice when you want to get rest while your baby nurses, if you have a very abundant milk supply, and if you must remain flat after a cesarean. This position may take a little practice, but it’s well worth the effort.
How to do it: Lie on your side on the bed with your baby facing you. Tuck pillows behind your back and your baby’s back, and under your head and upper knee, as needed for comfort and support. Your bottom arm can be up or held slightly below shoulder level, cradling your baby’s head. Her ear, shoulder, and hip should be in a straight line, with her knees pulled in close. You can feed from both breasts, leaning over your baby to offer the other side, or hold your baby to your chest and roll to the other side. If you want to lie on your back and nurse, drape your baby across your body and allow her to latch on. You can also sit on the side of the bed and get your baby latched on and then lie back.
Safety Notes
Pain is an indication that something is wrong. Though passing nipple tenderness is normal in the first few days, if nursing hurts or you have trouble positioning your baby, get help. Breastfeeding should be comfortable, even in the early weeks. Schedule a visit with a board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) who can observe a complete feed and offer recommendations.
Pillows can pose a suffocation hazard for babies, so remove any pillows under your baby when it’s time to sleep.
Can You Have Sex During Pregnancy?
April 18, 2008
You can have sex during pregnancy provided you take precautions of the sex position and follow strictly the following guidelines. Many people thought that during pregnancy it is inappropriate to have a sexual life. It is believes that this concept is not correct. (Please consult your personal gynecologist before getting into it) Pregnant women during pregnancy, as long as more careful, husband and wife can still have marital intercourse.
Basically, if pregnant women experience miscarriage or low placenta during pregnancy, vaginal bleeding or signs of preterm labor, the couple will need to avoid sex life. If there isn’t any signs mention above, there is no need to stop having sex during pregnancy for as long as nine months time. In fact, some pregnant women during pregnancy because of hormone secretion, their sexuality is higher than usual. Moreover, during pregnancy some couples enjoy sex more as they need not take contraceptive measures. As long as both husband and wife can accept, from the first days of pregnancy to the last day, couples can have sexual life, but take note that the number should not be too frequent, the sex movement should not be too drastic.
In general, in the early stages of pregnancy till five months, pregnant women protruding belly is not obvious, and can be used as sex peacetime posture. Over five months later, pregnant women abdominal grow, husbands need to make posture adjustments in order to make close contact to their spouse.
Husbands here are reminded that some pregnant women during pregnancy will have a feeling of being unwell or feeling of fear and do not want to have sex. Husband need to take into account the feelings of your pregnant wife, pregnant women often feel tired, husband should be considerate care more for your pregnant wife.
So how can couples have safely sex during pregnancy
Sex is a wonderful way for couples to remain intimate during pregnancy. Sex during pregnancy is usually safe, as long as some guidelines are followed:
- Consult your gynecologist for any sex during pregnancy
- Avoid intercourse (or sexual activity) if advised to do so by your care provider.
- The position of pregnant woman should take the top positions or side-lying to be more comfortable as pregnancy advances.
- Deep penetration should be at the discretion and comfort of the pregnant woman.
- Water, air or any foreign objects should not be part of any sex activity during pregnancy in the vagina.
- Understanding and caring husband to your pregnant wife.
- A pregnant woman should always be able to say no to sex during pregnancy.
- If a woman is at high risk for preterm labor, orgasm and sex intercourse should be avoided
- Any sexual contact should be avoided if the woman or her partner has been exposed and having sexually transmitted disease or HIV.
Here a pregnancy videos of Dr. Michele Hakakha an Obstetrician/Gynecologist an expert in female fertility talk on sex and pregnancy myths.
Pregnancy Videos | What Is Conception?
April 10, 2008
What is conception? Well these is when a sperm meets the an egg and implant into the woman’s uterine wall. That how you get pregnant. Hear more what Dr. Jay Goldberg an Obstetrician/Gynecologist explain and talk on some factors of concern to couples having problem in getting pregnant. Dr. Goldberg have an averages about 150 to 175 deliveries per year and has delivered over 2000 babies so far. The factors he touch on are:
- What is “conception”?
- What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?
- How does my age affect my ability to conceive?
- How can I improve my chances of getting pregnant?
- How does being overweight affect my ability to conceive?
- When can I expect to conceive after I stop taking hormonal contraceptives?
- When should I seek professional advice if I’m concerned about conceiving?
Online Pregnancy Video on Conception
The Transcript of this video.
What is conception?
Conception is the act between a sperm and an egg. Conception is when a sperm and an egg meet, and then they implant themselves into the uterine wall.
What factors affect my ability to get pregnant?
The factors that would affect a woman’s ability to conceive include such things as a prior infectious history, where it affected the patency of your fallopian tubes. In particular, chlamydia is most known for that, but pelvic inflammatory disease or any pelvic infection can damage your tubes. A prior surgery can cause problems, where you’ve had surgery in the past and it’s damaged the fallopian tubes and their ability to allow the sperm and the egg to meet. You can have had a history of something called endometriosis that can damage the integrity of the fallopian tubes, as well. Lifestyle as well, leading a poor lifestyle like cigarette smoking and such, can sometimes increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy, which is a pregnancy outside the uterus. Those are several factors that can affect the ability to concieve.
How does my age affect my ability to conceive?
Age is a major factor in your ability to conceive. A woman’s most fertile period of life, when it’s easiest to conceive is probably in her early twenties; late teens, early twenties. As time goes on, the quality of the eggs diminishes. Eggs are generated or formed at conception, so a woman’s eggs are a finite number. You have a certain amount when you’re born. At puberty it’s less, at 20 it’s less, at 30 it’s less. So by 40-45 years old your ability to spontaneously conceive without the assistance of fertility specialists is less than 1% at that point.
How can I improve my chances of getting pregnant?
You can increase your chances of getting pregnant by doing all the things that you should do, like leading a good healthy lifestyle. To increase chances of a successful pregnancy, protect yourself in your teens and twenties, meaning use condoms to prevent sexually transmitted infections. See a doctor regularly to get routine check-ups to avoid things like abnormal Pap smears or any potential infections that could cause complications in pregnancy. Try and treat things non-surgically if possible so that you can decrease the scar tissue that might develop within your abdomen, which can interfere in pregnancy.
How does being overweight affect my ability to conceive?
Usually, we encourage you to exercise regularly, because that can release endorphins and put you in a good mood. To eat healthy, because if you are an overeater and you carry around excess adipose or fat tissue, fat tissue makes the hormone estrogen, and that can cause your periods to become irregular. So, if you’re overweight and have irregular periods, your ability to conceive is going to be less because you can’t time things really appropriately.
When can I expect to conceive after I stop taking hormonal contraceptives?
After you take hormonal contraception, there’s a myth that you should have a cleansing period of several months but my personal experience with patients is that that’s not necessarily true. There’s no reason for you to cleanse your body. You can stop the birth control pill and shortly thereafter attempt conception, and if you were to conceive, I’d be patting you on the back, not telling you that that was a mistake.
When should I seek professional advice if I’m concerned about conceiving?
Ninety percent of fertile couples conceive with in a year. So it’s usually our recommendation, if you’re under thirty-five years old, to give it a good nine months to a year. If in nine months the two of you are a little bit eager, and you want to be proactive, then I would maybe recommend seeing your healthcare professional and talking about your concerns, and then you can kind of start the ball rolling. For women over thirty-five, your ability to conceive is a little bit more difficult. So, we’d probably look into that a little bit more, and usually people recommend six months. After six months at over thirty-five years old, then I would probably seek medical advice as to how you would proceed.
Men’s And Woman’s Fertility Facts
April 8, 2008
Conception occurs when the male sperm fertilizes the female ovum. Conception occurs through many options, but the most common technique for conception is intercourse. Often, fertility and conception can be hindered by reproductive problems in either the male or the female. Other times, problems with fertility and conception are the result of bad timing when intercourse does not take place during ovulation. Since fertility and conception go hand in hand, a couple that experiences fertility problems have a more difficult time of achieving conception. As such, many clinics and specialists are dedicated to helping couples achieve conception after fertility problems have occurred.
How Can Infertility Clinics Help?
One of the ways that infertility clinics help couples achieve conception is through fertility drugs. Depending on the diagnosis, companies offer fertility drugs to both men and women. Patients can decide between fertility drugs that you can inject directly or they can choose fertility drugs that are available in a pill format, depending on their particular case and personal preferences. Consulting a fertility and conception specialist is the best idea for making sure you receive the ideal treatment for your specific case.
Female fertility drugs are based on the production and release of the luteinizing hormone and the follicle stimulating hormone in women. These two hormones work together to trigger the release of an ovum into the fallopian tube so it can begin the process of fertilization. Some fertility drugs for women bypass the production of these hormones which causes the egg to be released. Instead, fertility drugs serve to induce ovulation. They do this by helping to create more than one mature egg so that several can be released during ovulation which increases the chance of conception. Often, fertility drugs can be the solution to a couple’s inability to achieve conception. Other times, fertility drugs are used with a combination of other methods and medications to solve the problem.
Fertility drugs are one way to deal with fertility issues in males. When a male’s sperm count is too low or the sperm are not strong enough, a doctor can prescribe medication or other treatments that will help the male increase his sperm count. These treatments also help to release toxins from the body which is often a factor that hinders the effectiveness of the male’s sperm. With a higher sperm count and stronger sperm, the male has an increased chance of fertilizing the female’s egg and achieving conception.
Fertility and conception are an overwhelming theme in our society. As such, trying to achieve conception often becomes the most important goal in the relationships of many couples. When problems occur, they turn to doctors who specialize in fertility and pregnancy. One of the most common methods to overcome fertility problems is through a variety of fertility drugs, but these are not without their problems. Having a specialist aid in your fertility and conception is just as important as following up with a physician after the use of fertility drugs in order to address any side effects they may produce.
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