Dad's Role
If your partner is breastfeeding the first thing you should know is that you can make a difference. Research has shown that a father's support is one of the more important factors in breastfeeding success.
What Does Dad Support Look Like?
Before we even talk about how fathers can support breastfeeding there is one very important point to make. Fathers can support breastfeeding, but in the end, the mother is the one who does it. It's her body, she gets to decide what to do and for how long. A father's job is to help her figure out what she wants and needs to do and then support her in her decisions.
Most Canadian mothers want to breastfeed. In fact, about 90 of mothers start out breastfeeding, and they all have a better chance of breastfeeding the way they wanted to if they get support. Your support is particularly important.
You can support your partner in all sorts of ways. Some of them are just little bits of help.
-Bringing her the baby when it's time to feed
-Fetching her glasses of water when she's nursing (breastfeeding moms get surprisingly thirsty)
-Feeding her. She's still eating for two, you know.
-Taking the baby after the feeding, if she wants to go to sleep
-Doing anything that reduces her workload so she can get lots of rest. That means cleaning, shopping, laundry, screening visitors (if that's what she wants)
-Keeping her company. Read to her from the newspaper, have a chat or just hang out with her while she's nursing.
But you can also help her in bigger ways. One of them is to learn something about breastfeeding.
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