Breast crawl

During our Newborn Care class we watched a video, The Amazing Talents of the Newborn, that totally blew us away. It showed the breast crawl: every newborn, when placed on her mother’s abdomen, soon after birth, has the ability to find her mother’s breast all on her own and to decide when to take the first breastfeed. The UNICEF recommends delaying all intervention on the baby (washing, vitamin K shot, eye anointment...) until the newborn has breastfed. More details here.