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hey Tom how are you good thank you

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hi Catherine how many not bad this is

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Torian hi Tori how are you he's doing

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right between weeks old how did things

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go

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yeah no bad he got off to a bit of a

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slow start with feeding initially he got

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it for the first 12 hours yeah and then

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he just seemed to be falling asleep on

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the boob instead of sleepy yeah yeah so

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Catherine are you happy for me to just

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run through the five individuals yes

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we're gonna start with cross cradle

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because that's when I know you've been

Cross Cradle

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trying to use and maybe cuz you feel

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little issues in the Yemen so you get to

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grips with that so baby needs to be

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lovely and close touching your body yeah

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okay head needs to be free to tilt back

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yeah just being aware that we're not

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restricting the head movement or

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bringing finger that baby needs to be in

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alignment so head neck and spine

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straight to the aligned and the last one

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which is gonna be key as nose to nipple

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and then what we're gonna do is we're

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going to put the baby in those positions

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and we're gonna wait for the baby to

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start rib tint

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okay and then baby will tilt their head

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yep open their mouth lovely and wide and

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then we can just bring the baby closer

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in to breast you can hear that no flee

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suck swallow pattern

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just be aware you know your leg there

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I know it's heavy and that's why maybe

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lying back would be more helpful yeah

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but even that can sometimes restrict so

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what you could do is bring this arm now

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around yes and then take that one away

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so once he's attached and he's latched

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how does that feel

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yeah that's better than sort of yeah but

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it's not stopping yeah you know we

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talked about the brown part of your

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breast tissue yeah he's got more of that

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above his top lip so it's really

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important okay and he's not noisy so

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clicking solution or sleuth there no

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it's perfectly comfortable he's

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breathing he's got his chin indented so

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these are the signs that you'd be

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looking for to suggest he's feeding well

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okay and there's no pain or discomfort

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for you so if we move on to rugby ball

Rugby Ball

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yet a rugby ball position so for this

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position we're going to bring tar in

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around your body yep

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so this is helpful in those early days

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perhaps after you've had a caesarean

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section where you've got a lot of

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pressure on your tummy which is only

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linked above so again we'll nose to

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neckline one way to be wide open

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excellent then and then if you feel you

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need that support you can bring the

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cushions in then to support your arms I

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can hear that lovely circle of

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swallowing pattern so if we look at the

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laid-back way of positioning your baby

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be ready to feed yeah okay so you're

Laid Back

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more inclined back so same principles

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again major

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make sure he's no sniffing he's actually

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attaching himself he's doing it

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so he's managed to self fit touch in

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itself he may adjust now because at the

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moment he's nestled into brass yeah yeah

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so um he might pull off and readjust

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himself if he wasn't happy he'd be

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pushing off he's wriggling around

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pushing off it's quite gentle it takes a

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weight off your shoulders as well yeah

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so if we look at the jockey style many

Jockey or Koala Style

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moments call this jockey style so your

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baby is more upright sitting in front of

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your face in Europe right yeah okay this

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is great for if your baby's got reflux

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or like windy yep okay so you might need

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to just roll your shoulders back hmm

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and if he's a bit too long so if he's

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too long we can adjust it and we can

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move him or muscle to the other leg

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because some babies are very long and

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with your own breast Anatomy that

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wouldn't work on us so you're almost

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sitting him on your thigh so can you

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feel the weight now is taken by your

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thigh lovely and I find this really

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helpful if babies have been struggling

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to attach and tilt their head back as

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they will naturally want to look up at

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you

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so as you talk to your baby they'll

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naturally want to look at and it'll

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encourage them to tilt that head back

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good boy and does it feel comfortable

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yeah and the way that his weight is

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going mean to them onto my leg now which

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is instead of having to hold it

Lying Down

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okay Catherine should we try feeding

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Thailand lying down and out lying down

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position

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so if you make yourself comfortable

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lying on your side okay okay so Tommy

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needs to be lovely and close to you so

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you can bring him right into you it's

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lovely and close and healing to you body

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that's excellent

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now he's in this position in bed really

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so fully supported by the bed he's got

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that lovely freedom of head movement so

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there's no Hamlin's or anything in the

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way to event that now the last thing we

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want to just check is whether he's nose

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to nipple so if we can just adjust

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themselves in this position is nose to

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nipple sometimes it is bringing them

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down your body a little bit more yep

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there we go and then again what you'll

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find him doing is rooting head tilt wide

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open mouth yeah and that's when you can

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bring just some pressure you'll get into

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his back gently onto the breast so what

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we said would suggest then is during the

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light with all the different feeds that

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you're gonna have is when he's due to

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feed off the other breast yeah okay what

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would happen is you just bring him out a

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little can he feed on the side yeah so

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you what you would do then is you would

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just turn your body in that direction so

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your bottom would move up that way and

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your ugly nose Rheum in the bassett

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lovely honey both room a little bit more

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and either you're still getting that

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nose to nipple position still nothing

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close to you

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yep but he's got access to the other

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breast as well okay so I don't need to

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move on to do this no so you're safe

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then with without having to feed you've

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got a put baby in between you and Dad to

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feed and then fall asleep

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yeah risks associated tonight you can

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stay on your side of the bed yeah and

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feed them from both breaths on the same

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side not to move him as well yeah so

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thinking about all the positions we've

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gone through today because we're going

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to feel quite it there yeah

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which do you think would you notice it

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most listen this is gonna be really

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comfortable at night because at the

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moment I feel very sort of well I get

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pretty tires just just tiring anyway

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being out move but having to sort of sit

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sort of one of the shoulders slumped

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it's sitting on your

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baktun per hours it's pretty

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uncomfortable so this is gonna be really

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good for night foods XM fantastic so

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you've got so many options now yeah yeah

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and if you have days where perhaps

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feeding isn't going as well you can you

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try it differently other things yeah

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thanks very much fantastic

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