Breastfeeding is old news

Last night was the Breastfeeding class that was supposed to teach us more about breastpumps and storing breastmilk. Although we haven't made a definite plan about Andrea returning to work or school, we thought that at some point we would want to have the information so that Andrea could be away from baby for several hours without worrying about Baby's feeding schedule. We had already learned about positioning, feeding frequency, and problems to watch for from the Baby Express class. Unfortunately, yesterday's class was about 90% review. The new information on breast pumps and breastmilk storage pretty much matched what we had already read on the subject. Neither Andrea or I felt that we learned anything new, although review can be useful. However, the best part of class was a new video showing newborn babies put on their mothers' chests. The babies had a natural instinct to climb towards the breast and begin feeding. It was amazing to watch and shows how much nature really does know what it's doing. Not only do babies know where to go, but the instructor mentioned that babies crawling on mommy's tummy would serve as a uterine massage, which is done by nurses in our "modern" world. Once again, nature shows it's smarter than we are...