If you are a pregnant or new mom who is planning on breastfeeding, you need to get the My Baby Experts Simply Breastfeeding DVD! Not every town offers new parents breastfeeding classes. So this is a great way to get get ready for your new baby and get proactive in increasing your knowledge of breastfeeding in the comfort of your own home, with your spouse or partner by your side. Even if your prenatal class does offer good breastfeeding information, having this video to review whenever you need it is excellent value. The DVD set you order also comes with a handbook.
Shari Crisco, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Nurse Midwife and your teacher in the film, puts it like this: The difference between pregnancy and breastfeeding is like the difference between the wedding and the marriage. You put so much energy into the wedding, and then when the day somes you feel relieved that it is finally over, only really, it is just the beginning! Now you need to figure out the marriage part. Having a baby is the same thing.
I could totally relate to that comparison because I spent my whole pregnancy pouring over books and planning the perfect birth. My biggest regret after my first daughter was born was that I didn’t put enough time and energy into preparing for motherhood and breastfeeding. Even though I had minimal problems with breastfeeding – I had cracked and bloody nipples due to an improper latch that I thought was fine – I assumed these things just came along with the breastfeeding territory – I wish I had known more about the benefits of breastfeeding beforehand. Because if I wasn’t already sold on breastfeeding and if I had had anymore problems than I did, I don’t know if I would have continued. It might have been easier to stop.
And this is why I love Shari Crisco’s video! Because she spends the first half of the video selling you on breastfeeding, so you enter your breastfeeding relationship with your baby with a commitment to it, no matter what! Like she says in the video, 98% of your success is your commitment (and your partner’s commitment to supporting it). You finish watching the video, more informed than most people are about breastfeeding.
Of course she covers the benefits of breastfeeding, for baby and mom, and emphasizes the importance of dad’s role in the breastfeeding relationship, which is really cool and really is important to successful breastfeeding. She also covers a number of the myths and misunderstanding our culture has with breastfeeding. Things like why worrying about infant weight loss in the early days is overrated, how much your newborn should really be getting in the first few weeks, what kinds of things affect mom’s milk supply and why your nipples shouldn’t hurt when you breastfeed and what to do if they do. I found myself nodding my head in agreement to many things she said that I was so glad she shared with her class, and I even learned a few things! Me, a seasoned breastfeeding mom who’s been breastfeeding for almost 5 years non-stop and writes a blog about the topic!
The second half of the DVD shows you how to breastfeed. Also handy, especially if you have never seen anyone breastfeed close up before. And not many new moms have. I appreciated the visual learning that comes with watching this well produced video. My husband suggested I mention the excellent production values too because once upon a time he was a Film Studies major, and he likes to put his education to use once in awhile.
Criticisms? There are no people of colour in the video. She also doesn’t touch on why hospital personnel get new moms to supplement. I wish this information was more readily to available to moms who struggle with the inconsistent messages they recieve from hospital personnel, LC’s, doulas, midwives, friends and family. But I think it is difficult for professionals to call out their collegues. Fair enough. I do agree it is important to maintain one’s prefessional integrity. I also would have liked to see her mention the the breastfeeding recommendations from World Health Organization (WHO) who advise mothers to breastfeed exclusively for the first 6 months and then up to two years and beyond while the American Pediatric Association’s (APA) only recommend breastfeeding for up to a year and beyond.
If you want to learn how to be a successful breastfeeding mom and gain enough knowledge about breastfeeding that you will essentially be able to help other women feel confident and committed to breastfeeding too, then I urge you to buy this DVD set. And if you order it through my site I will get a commission. Yep! I signed up to be an affiliate because I really do believe that this is an exceptional product for new moms who want to breastfeed.
I don’t do many product reviews because I am a pretty picky woman, but those I do you can count on my full support of the product. I fully endorse My Baby Experts Simply Breastfeeding DVD. Buy it for yourself or go in on it with a friend so both of you can benefit from it for less, or buy it for expecting parents you know. You won’t be disappointed.
The Giveaway
**This contest is now closed**
I am giving away one Simply Breastfeeding DVD set.
How To Enter
To enter you must be living in Canada or the USA and leave a comment telling me why you would like to have the Simply Breastfeeding DVD Set.
Additional Entries:
- Follow me on twitter and tweet this contest (copy and paste the following): RT@bfmom Pregnant or new mom? Win it! Breastfeeding instruction in your own home “Simply Breastfeeding DVD” http://snipr.com/j47tz
- Subscribe to my blog by RSS or email.
- Add me to your blog roll or links page
- Blog about the contest
- Post this contest on your Facebook page
- Stumble one of my posts you like (3 extra entries – leave a comment 3 times)
- Buy The Simply Breastfeeding DVD Set through my site. Click on the button on the top right corner of my web page (5 additional entries – leave a comment 5 times) and enter the contest for a friend.
*For each thing you do, you must leave a separate comment.* Good Luck!
Contest ends June 13th/09 at 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
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Ooh ooh! I need to win it! We just figured out that my daughter wasn’t getting enough breastmilk. Now that it’s fixed, she’s sucking the skin right off my nipples, so we need to re-learn how this works. Great blog by the way. Tons of information to read!
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I think we’ve got thing under control here, with my 7 month old, but I would love to win this to either give to my SIL who is expecting twins (b/g – we just found that out today!) or to donate to my local La Leche League.
I’ve tweeted the contest and I’m following you on Twitter.
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I already follow your blog.
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And you’re already in my list of “Blogs I Love” on my website.
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Ooh!I finally got your page to load on my blackberry – yay! Mel, pick me, pick me – I’ve still (approx) eight weeks before the baby comes so there’s time to get things started right
I tweeted the contest too but can’t get the url for the tweet easily, (and of course you’re on my blogroll) being a bit held back by being blackberry only atm. But I’m typing this from the beach so I’m definitely NOT complaining!
I’d love to have a copy of this! I’m planning to become a LC and am very active with my local LLL, so I could put this in the library!!
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I’ve subscribed via RSS.
(ps – no extra entry for blogging about the contest?)
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Added you to my blogroll
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Wrote about it on my blog: http://kblog.theschellingerhou.....-giveaway/
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Posted about it on Facebook … and I tried to Stumble it … but the word verification kept screwing up …
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Aha! I *did* stumble it – the Mother’s Day Card one
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I would love to win this since its been over 2 years since my last little one was born and I really need a good refresher.
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I follow you on twitter!
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I love breastfeeding. I would love to have these to donate to my local LLL. I nursed my daughter to age 28 months when age self weaned and am currently nursing my 13 month old son.
I always love to keep on nursing info, & I also love the stories that fellow nursing mamas share…. I had no support nursing my first child, my own sister & best friend told me that if I was still nursing my son when he turned two, they were going to have an intervention! I am proud to say that he nursed until he was 2 1/2, & I was 7 months pregnant with my second… To have more facts & collective stories all together would be a great gift to pass along to those who need it most! I am successfully nursing my now 4 month old, & love promoting nursing to new moms & friends that are expecting…. it blows me away what little knowledge we have had available until recently ~ Thanks Melodie ~ your dedication is appreciated!
what a great give-away!! crossing my fingers
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tweet here: http://twitter.com/crazydigger/status/1988284714
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and you’re already on my blogroll..
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hmm… i dunno how to work that “stumble it” but i did leave a comment in yesterday’s monday musings (healthy eating) and monday musings, march 2009 – hospitals and ignorance
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blogged about the giveaway here: http://fabnaima.blogspot.com/2.....aways.html
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Hey Melodie: here’s my tweet: http://twitter.com/xxcaro/status/1980199883
take care,
CJ
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Hey Melodie: you’re on my blogroll at http://breederbrain.blogspot.com/
take care,
CJ
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Hey Melodie: I wasn’t sure how to show you I follow you in my RSS feed, so I just emailed you an invite to share my RSS subscriptions with you. Hope that’s cool.
take care,
CaroLyn.
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Hey Melodie: I posted a link on Facebook to the contest. You can see my profile here: http://www.facebook.com/inbox/.....ef=profile though you could see it anyway
take care,
CJ.
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What a great analogy…about the wedding and the marriage! You have sold me on the DVD.. I would like to win it so I can use it to help educate hundreds of mom’s by encouraging staff to show this to ALL moms!!
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I follow you on twitter…
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You are in my RSS feed on Google reader which is how i saw this giveaway post!!
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Stumbled you… 2 Thumbs up!
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Don’t get sick of me yet…. Twittered this giveaway
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Now I have posted a link to this on my facebook–but the wrong picture shows up..the Earth Mama Organic ad shows up with the link to this giveaway. But the right link is there.
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I follow you on twitter and re-tweeted the post
Pregnant and due in Sept, need all the help I can get.
Just another entry that I re-tweeted
Not sure if this counts but I also follow you on twitter.
In October I will be a new mother, luckily I do have a good collection of new moms who will support me in my new adventure. But, sadly, each one of them has had quite a few problems with breast feeding – some of which even resulted in giving up after a two weeks others who would literally cry in pain for several weeks when feeding. I am quite anxious about the changes in my life (giving up my University teaching position with no maternity pay for example) and would love to have one less thing to worry about! I am quite comfortable with infants, but obviously this is completely new territory for me. (Lack of organization throws me through a loop – you can imagine what this bundle of joy, sleepless nights, and hormones are going to do to me…) In addition, one of my best friends is due 1 week after me, along with 3 other friends following in the next month. So, I could certainly help share the news and dvd to all the other dazed eyed moms in my circle.
My BF is expecting and a little shy about BFING…I think watching this in the comfort of her own home instead of in a group would help her tremendously!!!
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I would love to have this DVD. I’m in the process of becoming a midwife and also training through CAPPA to be a Certified Lactation Educator. It would be a great tool for me to use!
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I have not seen something like this before and usually only hand out our books and pamphlets and offer local consultant help. Many people including myself would prefer a dvd and this is a great setup it looks like