Mindful Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding
I trained in Mindful Breastfeeding while I was pregnant with Oakley in 2021. I was due to finish the course on her due date, but the impatient little lady decided to turn up 4 weeks early. I ended up finishing the course while nursing Oakley during the online sessions, multi tasking or what.!
Both my feeding journeys haven’t been an easy start, I did need support both times, I have 2 daughters and their feeding journeys have been completely different. I was lucky to have fantastic support, but I know a lot of families who didn’t have the support and stopped their breast/chestfeeding journey early because of this.
I wanted to train so I can support parents to meet their feeding goals. I include mindful breastfeeding/chestfeeding in all my hypnobirthing courses and I also provide a separate 90 minute breastfeeding/chestfeeding course. It is an adaptable course where I can provide more support if wanted/needed.
What is Mindful Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding?
It’s a combination of practical breastfeeding support with mindfulness techniques.
What are Mindfulness techniques?
Relaxation tips, guided relaxation, journaling, affirmations and more.
It’s linking Mind – Body – Connection, and understanding how they impact your feeding journey.
What will you learn?
- Benefits of skin to skin
- The importance of the hormone oxytocin and how to boost it.
- Nursing culture
- Exploring your thoughts of breastfeeding/chestfeeding
- Understand our autonomic nervous system
- Affirmations
- Breathing exercises
- How breastfeeding/chestfeeding works
- How do we know if baby is getting enough milk
- What life is like during the early newborn days
- Latch and positioning
- Local support/specialists
- Following your instincts
- Safe sleep
- Baby Wearing
- Guided relaxations
The goal of Mindful Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding?
I want you to have a positive feeding journey, what I teach can help you with pumping and combination feeding too.
When should I start Mindful Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding?
Whenever you want, you can do mindful breastfeeding/chestfeeding during pregnancy or when the baby is here. The course is really flexible and we can do it whenever you want.
Benefits of relaxation/mindfulness during nursing:
Babies drink more – gain more weight and sleep more!
Lower levels of the stress hormone adrenaline
Produce more of the hormone oxytocin – feeling loved – great for bonding with baby
Can support milk supply
More likely to meet feeding goals.
Better quality sleep
If you have any questions, just add them to the comment box and I will update the post.
If you would like to know more about mindful breastfeeding/chestfeeding, email me at [email protected]
Jodie x
