Chapter 7: Your baby's birth experience

Expectations

Don't set your standards too high....

I once had a celebrity patient - Things did not go smoothly - imagine the position of my eyebrows when a couple of months later I picked up a women's magazine……if only she had told of the agony as well as the ecstasy, the reality, not the idealised fantasy that somehow we have come to think of as normal.....

Attachment and Bonding - It takes time to fall in love with your baby.

In the Delivery room - Breathing and lung issues - Infections - Vitamin K

Chapter 8: Breastfeeding