How to actually help in the first days
Most women in this country start breastfeeding. By the baby's first birthday, only about one in six still is. And the biggest thing driving women to stop isn't the milk — it's contradictory advice.
Your job in the first days isn't to fix anything. It's to know how it works — and guard her against the noise.
One page: six things to know, the single question that cuts through bad advice, and what you actually do. Written by Mark Harris, midwife of thirty years, and taken from Men, Love & Birth — the new edition.
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What's inside
- Milk is made to order. Supply follows demand — feeding often is how the milk gets made.
- The stomach is tiny. A marble's worth on day one. The baby isn't starving.
- Letdown is shy. It needs her calm, warm and unobserved.
- One clear voice beats ten opinions. And the one question that cuts through everything.