Thank God. Okay. Alright, so we have Ms. Naomi Bush with us today. Let's thank her for being here. She's going to talk about superpowers. Alright, so thank you so much for being here and for coming. Let's see. Did it stop working? Oh well. I tried. Of course, right? We just tested it. Alright, so thank you so much. Like you said, my name is Naomi and I'm going to be talking today about how to automate the content on your site using a form builder. And I like to call it superpowers. The reason why is because it's something that people normally don't consider using a form builder to do. But I love form builders and basically what I do is I use form builders to help business owners like you quickly achieve complicated functionality that they previously thought either was impossible or would need a lot of coding. And so if what you're trying to do involves receiving data and then processing that data in some form or fashion, then what I want you to do is ask if your form builder is up for the job. So many times I run across people and they say, well, you know, I need to do this thing, let's say, I don't know, I need to take donations. So I need a donations plugin or I need to allow people to list things on my site. So I need a listings plugin. They automatically go to directly what they think it is. But a form builder, I love them because they are so open-ended. Again, if all you need to do is take in data, that is receive data and then process that data, a form builder might be the tool for the job. And my professional goal here is to get you to ask that, is my form builder the right tool for the job? Why? Because you probably already have one. Who here has a website but does not have a contact form on that website? You do not have a contact form. So most people, if you have a website, you probably have a contact form on that website. And so that's why. Because it's something that you already have, it's incredibly powerful. I like to say my mother taught me how to be resourceful. So if you already have it and it's good and it can be used, then let's use it. So you are in the right place if you have or you want to build a website. If you want to allow people other than you to submit content on that website, however you do not want to give them access to the back end of your site. For whatever reason, maybe it's for security, maybe it's just that you feel that the back end is complicated, you want to keep things simple, you want to keep them focused, you don't want them looking around at all the other things. You are in the right place if you then want to display that content that they submit on your site. Let's say you want to approve that content first before it gets displayed publicly out to the world. Maybe you want them to pay to submit that content. You want them to be able to go back and update the content that they submitted. And then bonus points if you don't have to be hands on every step of the way. And you can kind of automate it and put it on autopilot. Now that's what you want. So challenge accepted. I have about 24 minutes. Let's walk through this. First, what is a form builder? So here's a form, our trusty contact form that we have all likely seen. But in order to build this form, that's kind of what you need to do. You've got that code there. A form builder is a WordPress plugin that allows you to visually build your forms instead of having to know how to code. It's commonly in a drag and drop type of interface. So you take your field and you drag it and say, this is what I want. The most common type of form that we all know of is a contact form. So that's one interface and here's another form builder. Here's their interface. As you can see, it's all about fields and place your fields where you want them to go. But you'll notice here that there are actually many types of fields. So just using it for a contact form, we can actually do a whole lot more. Let's look at these type of fields that we have. Single line text, paragraph text, dropdown fields, number fields, radio buttons, hidden fields, name, date, phone, address, website, user name, password, email, file upload, list fields, product fields, credit card fields, currency fields. That's a whole lot more than a contact form, right? So with a form builder, you can collect anything you want and then process it in a myriad number of ways. Here are some example things that you can use for processing your form, right? So you can have a form that collects a payment and it's processed with Stripe or PayPal. You can take in some form data and send it to Salesforce. Send it to HubSpot, InfusionSoft. When people sign up, you can add them to a MailChimp list. And then there's Zapier. If you're not familiar with Zapier, Zapier is, oh gosh, Zapier is awesome. They're over, excuse me? WordPress Glue. Yeah, WordPress Glue. There you go. That's a good one. So today we're going to talk about how to use your form builder specifically to collect content for your site. All right. So let's say you want to allow guest posting on your business site or food recipes blog or... Let's see. Anybody? What type of site do you have that you want to allow people to post to? Somebody. Yes? Holistic Wellness. Okay. Holistic Wellness. Anybody else? No? Yeah. Volunteers. Volunteers. Okay. Lesson plan submissions. Lesson plan submissions. Okay. I like that. Okay. All right. All right. So I'll work with that. Okay. But you don't want...  Well, fire up your trusty form builder and you can have them do it on the front end. So we're going to create a form as you see here with the fields for the information that you need. In this particular form, I have some post fields. So post title, post image, post body, post category. Yes? What do you recommend is the most capable form builder? We'll get into that. Okay. But most form builders, you know, the features are basically on par. Okay. So it's really a matter of preference. But we'll... I'll talk about that at the end. All right. And so then, once you have your fields, you then want to indicate that you are going to create a post. Okay. You can set the post to either be automatically published, as you can see here. Or you can say, no, just make it a draft. Right. And then, you know, make sure that it's okay. Or you can put it in pending review, you know, any of the post statuses that you have there. And that's in one interface. And here's another interface from another form builder. As you can see here, it's, you know, you have your fields, post title, content, featured image, categories. All right. And then you indicate, hey, when this form is submitted, save it as a post type. Okay. And one of the things that I love about using a form builder for submitting content is the automatic validation that it gives you. I was speaking with someone and one of the things that they mentioned was that their content process is to have people email in the content. All right. And so, inevitably things are missing. All right. You're missing an image here. Or this isn't, this isn't correct. Right. And so they have to do the whole back and forth to get everything completed. Or with a form, you just make the field required. All right. Put a field for what you absolutely need. Make it required. And then if, if they haven't filled in the required information, then guess what? It's not submitted. All right. So you always have everything that you need. Another thing here is let's say you have, you know, a maximum word count.  And there are so many different automatic validation things. Yes. Okay. The logged in user has author. But if you don't want them to have to log in, they still be able to show as the author even though they're not a logged in user of your site. Yeah. Probably. Probably. So would you make another, I guess, field that says author so they could put their names? You could. Yep. You could. Now, in order to make someone an author of a WordPress post, they have to have a user account in WordPress though. Okay. So now they don't have to be logged in, but they do have to have a user account. Okay. So, okay. But you could just make that field, hide that field and use the field you create. Correct. From ACF. That's right. Yeah. You could use ACF, but it's not, not required, but I do know a lot of people that use it. Okay. So that is if you're creating a WordPress post. All right. But what if your content isn't exactly a WordPress post, right? If you are collecting a list of team member profiles, right? Or maybe donors and payments. All right. I think someone mentioned volunteers. Maybe real estate properties for sale. Event registrations. All right. You want to collect this information. All right. But you also want it to be able to be displayed on the front end of your site. I think I mentioned before, recipes. No problem. You know, your form builder has this built in. Here's another example. You know, maybe it's some kind of gallery. So your form builder has this built in. And here's, here's an example of these are actually just entries from a form builder that are displayed in different formats. Here it's displayed. Let's see. You probably collected an image and then a description and then a website and a phone. All right. And you can click to view details. And as you can see, it's in a format where you can search through the information that was submitted and it's also paged as well. Okay. Here's another example of people submitting information and it is displayed on a map. Okay. So when the person on your form, you probably have a field that says, you know, what's your address? Okay. And here it is. This is, this is done just with a form builder. Okay. So every entry that is submitted gets a marker on the map. Okay. And then people can search through it. This is just a form builder. And this is why I say it's like superpowers. Right. Because I mean not a single line of code, just a form builder. Just that thing that you're using to build your contact form. All right. So come on, give it a job. Hire it. Come on. Give it a promotion. All right. All right. You can even allow people to vote and add their own ratings and reviews on the information that is submitted. So here's an example. Enable entry reviews, five star rating limited to one review per person. And this is what it looks like. Again, these are just entries that are submitted in a form. Displayed in a format. And on this side, you can vote. And on this side, you can add stars. So it's just different types of reviews that you can have there. Okay. All right. So what if you want to approve the content that people submit first? All right.  And I'll show you, I'll show you an example of that. Okay. So the first thing that you can do is you can simply receive an email when someone submits your form. That's this example here. Admin notification. When the form is submitted, we're going to send it to a particular email address.  Right. Another thing that you can do is you can go in and, oh, I'm sorry, this is where you manually approve it. So you have your check mark and your X. If you say no, it's rejected. All right. And then you can set things up to only display the content that has been approved. So there it is. Show only approved entries. The next thing that you can do is you can actually set up a full approval workflow. All right. With like multiple steps and branches. Like if the person submitted this, then send it here. If they submitted something else, then send it somewhere else. All right. And so here's an example where you can actually receive an email. All right. When the form is submitted and then from your email, you can either click an approve or a reject link. All right. So that's part of, yes. What is this specifically from a work plugin? This is specifically from Gravity Forms. Okay. So here's the email that you set up and then you just add the approved link and the reject link. All right. And so that's part of that autopilot stuff where when someone submits something and it needs to be approved or rejected, it comes right to your email.  You know, I don't like that. Send it back to them. And so here's where we get into a whole stepped procedure. All right. So you can set up multiple steps. Here's one for purchase orders. All right. So someone submits their purchase order information. It needs to be approved and I'll show you how to set up an approval step.  All right. And it can automatically go through those things. So let me show you how to do that. Okay. So here it is. We're setting up a step. Step type is approval. And here is where we assign the step to whoever it needs to be assigned to. Okay. You can assign it to one person. You can assign it to multiple people. You can set it up so that only one person has to approve it. Let's say you have a supervisor and a backup or you can set it up so that everyone that it's assigned to has to approve it before it can be considered complete. All right. And then finally, here at the bottom, you can see next step if rejected or next step if approved and that's where you set up the next step that it goes to. So when I talked about putting things on autopilot, someone submits your form. It gets sent to your email. You say, okay, you click the link in your email. I'm approving this. It automatically gets sent to the next step in the workflow. Okay. You didn't have to do that. You didn't have to manually send it, email it to your supervisor or manually email it to your manager. And that's what that is for right there. When you set up your next steps if rejected, next steps if approved. Okay. Okay. And then the one thing that I did mention is you can also let's say something is just not right. You need to send it back to the user. Here's an example of sending it back to the user with the fields highlighted that are incorrect. Saying, hey, you need to fix these right here. Okay. Yes. When you have something like submitting to our post, is there format? Can you have a format? Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. Put it so that it looks... Absolutely. So if it's a WordPress post it's just going to use your theme. All right. If it's not a WordPress post and it's entries in a form, what you can do is... And I think I don't have that in the slide. But what you do is you select which fields from the form you want to show. And then you can format that using HTML. I'm sorry. Using CSS. All right. Yeah. That's not going to work. But I hear you. Or... But yeah. Yeah. That's not going to work. Or you can have it just use the default styles in your theme. Okay. So the one that I'm thinking of, what it does is it has locations where it says this is the top, this is the side, this is this area right here, and then this is the bottom. And so you can select where you want the fields to go in. So... So it is populated based on... Correct. Basically, yeah. Okay. All right. Now, what we've done so far is we've got people submitting posts. We've got... We have it set up so that we can approve it first. We can send it through an approval workflow. And now what if you want people to pay? Okay. Well, you know, pay $100 to list your job for the month. There are a lot of paid listings type of sites. Well, your form builder has payment add-ons. These are some of the most popular, Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, Braintree. But most of these have, I mean, all kinds of payment add-ons, things I've never heard of, a lot of international payment providers. You know, it's your choice. All right. And so when you set up a form builder with a payment add-on, then the form isn't submitted until the payment is complete. But you say, well, you know, what if, you know, I want the information to be submitted, right? But I want to review it first. And then if I accept it, then I want to have the payment, right? But I want to make sure that they can pay first. All right. Well, you can do that. It's part of that workflow that I showed you. Here's an example of a form with a credit card field. But part of that is here, you see a PayPal step. All right. So you can add a PayPal step to the workflow. Once it's approved, then it will automatically be sent to the next step, which means that the person will receive a request to pay via PayPal automatically. Okay. All right. Another thing that you can do is you can also just collect their credit card details, but not charge them until later. So you can say, well, if this costs $100, I want to make sure that you have the $100, but I don't want to charge you yet. All right. So the payment add-on can authorize the $100 on the card, you know, and just hold it there. And if it's rejected, that's okay. The authorization will go away. But if it's not, then you can process the payment. And as a bonus, let's say it's a subscription, right? So they pay $100 a month or $30 a month, you know, to post and edit their posts and things like that. Well, again, this is just with a form builder. Here you can have them, they do have to have a user account, right? But they can log in and they can update their subscription. They can cancel their subscription. They can see their payment history. They can update their billing, their billing details. Okay. So that'd be like the membership piece of it. Yes. Yes. Yes. But again, that's with a form builder. A lot of people think that, oh, I have a membership site. I need these, you know, I have this recurring subscription. I need a membership plugin. No, this is, I mean, it's simple. Right? Yes, sir. All the credit card information is held by the credit card process, right? Correct. Yes. Yeah. Now, this is, this particular example is with Stripe.  So if you're using something like Authorize.net, they're not going to make sure that you're not holding onto credit card information. So that is up to you to make sure you're not holding onto it. If you use Stripe, it's automatic. You're not holding onto it at all. But there are other processors that you are able to. Okay. So. And you don't want to. Yeah, you don't want to. You know, unless you've gone through the whole PCI compliance procedure, you know, and then if you know what you're doing in that area, then that's fine. What about PayPal? Yeah, PayPal, you're not holding onto it. Yeah. Yes. You've been talking about receiving information and displaying it online. Yes. I'm assuming that you can not also, you can choose not to display. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Okay. So now we've got the content submitted. All right. We've got it paid for. We've got it approved and we've got it displayed on our site. But what if the person needs to go back and update the content? All right. Well, that is actually not a problem. Okay. So when people submit their content, what you're going to do is create a username and a password for them so that they can log in and edit their information. Here's an example. Allow logged-in users to edit the entries they've created. There are some instances where they do not have to have a username and password, but it just depends. You know, it's not very safe, not very secure. So if it's just simple things, then that's fine. But normally what you want them to have is a username and password. Now people, you know, when you say give them a username and password, they're worried about people logging in doing crazy things on their site. Well, no. Just because you give someone a username and password doesn't mean they have any permissions to do anything on your site. So it's not as bad as you think it is. If a person makes multiple postings, do they get one username and password? Yes. Or just one. And then you can have... I showed a screen before that had a list. And when they log in, they'll see a list of all of their postings. And then, as it's shown here, they can go in, there'll be an option to edit it. Okay. It'll say edit. Yes. The username and password created automatically? Yes. It's created automatically. Okay. Okay. So another thing that I find that this is good for is when you have team members that you need to perform actions on your site, but you don't want them to have access to the back end or, like I said, you want to keep them focused. You don't want them looking around at all the other things. Another way that I've seen this used is when you have... I'm trying to give a good example. So one was I had someone where they created warranty contracts for car dealerships. To be able to go in and enter, you know, whenever they made a sale, enter the warranty information, and then they needed that warranty information sent over to Salesforce. Okay. But if you know anything about Salesforce, Salesforce charges per user. Right? So they didn't want to have to create a user account for all of their dealers to go into Salesforce and to add their warranties. Right? So what they did was they used a form builder, and they set it up so that the person came in through their form builder, entered the warranty information, which then got sent to Salesforce. But then, if they needed to update that, they were able to come back to their WordPress site, edit the warranty information that they submitted, and then that updated information got sent to Salesforce. All right? So they kind of saved some money there without having to create user accounts for everyone. Okay. So our challenge in the beginning was to allow people, other than you, to submit content on your site without giving them access to the backend, to display the content that they submitted on your site. Okay? To approve the content that they submitted, to pay to submit content, to go back and update the content that they submitted, and have it all on autopilot. Okay? And notice that we did all of this with a form builder. Okay? Which you already have. Not a single line of code. All right? So give your form builder a chance. Someone asked me, well, what form builder do I use? Use the one you already have. All right? Use the one that you like, that works best for you. These are three of the most popular ones. There are so many other ones. There are more popping up every day. But just remember, if you need to receive data and then process that data, ask if your form builder is up for the job. Okay? And so I know I went through that kind of fast, but I am, like, right on time. I did awesome. If you would like a detailed write-up, okay, of how I put all of this together and a list of everything that I used, you can just go here, gravityplus.pro slash word camp, and I'm gonna send that to you. Plus, I have a few bonuses. All right? If you don't already have a form builder, I have some attendee-only discounts for you on some of them. So go there. I am gonna take it down once I leave just because I get people spamming it. So I take it down once I'm done, but I'm gonna send the attendee-only discounts, all of the tools that I used there, in multiple form builders, okay? And a couple of other case studies, like I mentioned with the guy who did the warranties for car dealerships. And I'll also send over the slides and the speaker notes, if that's something that you get value out of, okay? I'll be around for the rest of the day. It's not that long, and I'm happy to answer any, can my form builder do this or is this a good job for my form builder type of questions? We now have about 15 minutes for questions, so yes. So with the user accounts, if they want to log in to edit, are they logging in through WordPress? Yes. Yes. So they would use that, but they're not seeing where they see a different kind of back-end? No. No. It'll, when someone logs in that has no permissions, they just get sent back to the front end of the site. Okay. But they'll still see, like, whatever they... Yeah. They'll be able to see whatever they submit.  And there are plugins that allow you to, when someone logs in, you can redirect them to a certain page, so you can redirect them to the page that you have set up with all of their entries that they submitted. Okay. It probably lets you set the user type when that account is created. Yeah, you can set the... Subscribers. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yes. So do I need to add, I guess, on the page? If I don't have anywhere right now where someone goes to my website, I can't afford for them to log in or create a user, so I need to add that to the site somewhere? So you can have that just through the form builder. So when someone submits a form, it can automatically create a user account for them. But then it's just in the latest in the login application. Oh. You're saying a login link? So, yeah. So I'm saying right now there's nowhere for anyone to log in. Mm-hmm. So by creating the form, I can create the form where you fill out all the information and submit, but in that same process, you will be creating a user with a password. Yes. And now you do have access to be able to come back and review a login user if you need to come back and edit or do something else. Yes. Yes. So you can create if you want to say, well, you need a login link. So when people come to your site, they know where to log in. You can just put that anywhere in your menu somewhere. Okay. Yes. Is there any ability to do password recovery? Yeah, that's default in WordPress. So... But we're at a form builder level, I believe? Yes. So, but WordPress has their own default password recovery system. So what you can do is you can create a password recovery form and it'll just go through WordPress. So you can say, forgot my password and I at least know that Gravity Forms has instructions on how to set that up. Yes, sir. For people that are accepting like media files or forms, anything about maybe like a malicious file checker? Yes. So WordPress by default has a certain file types that can be accepted. And then in your form builder in the image in the file upload field, you can set the file types that can be accepted as well. So you can kind of limit what people can upload. Let's say you only want people to be able to upload PNGs or JPEGs. Okay. I know by default, this does not accept SVGs. So that's something that you have to enable yourself if you want to. Any other questions? Yes. I'm not clear on how often for what purpose people use form builders to actually build content. Like, you know, content that would be search engine eligible for optimization kind of content. Okay. So I guess specifically what I was talking about here was user submitted content. So where you want people to submit things. Now if you want to go back and, you know, make sure that it's search engine optimized, then that is something that you would have to do manually. So you would go into wherever you edit, you know, the WordPress post or the form entry.  But you can always go back in yourself and edit it, but that's not something that you can automatically handle. Okay. So is this like when people leave comments about something that's not okay? Well, let's say you have a recipe site, right, and you want other people to submit recipes on your site as well. You're not having to create and submit recipes all the time. Well, this is where you just create a form, someone goes to that form and they can submit their recipe and it'll automatically show up on your site, right? So you're getting your site filled with great content without you having to be so hands-on. Okay. Yes, sir. You did mention that there's also the possibility of taking the form and loading it into a database or some type of capture so that you can then repurpose it as a page of information. Specifically, I'm looking to do a volunteer list. Yes. And I would want to do it by each school that needed volunteers. So you can do a whole page of volunteers for school A, school B and school C or maybe repurpose it to say, I need readers, I need math, I need science. Sure. So you can take the data that's input from there and use it in another way. It wouldn't have to be a post-comment. Correct. So here's an example of let's say you have, let's say this is a list of volunteers, all right? What you can see is that each of those, let's say you have one column for school, school A, school B. People can sort the list by that. What you can also do though is you can also have searching. All right, so let's, so here's an example. This is a list of businesses. All right. If you notice up at the top where it says business name, that's a search box. So let's say people want to search for school A. Just put school A in and then all of everything that was submitted for school A will show up, all of the volunteers for them. Okay. Can you display based on school A like a page for school A? Yes. Yeah. So, I don't have a good image. I can show you, if you, you know, come afterwards, I can show you on the website.  That's the rule. But you can have, you can have conditional logic on this where you can say in this particular view only show entries from school A. And it'll look something like that, but not exactly. I have one here. So, like there's an example. Show only approved entries, you know. That's one where we're only showing a certain subset of information. Any other questions? Yes. So, you said earlier, for example, the person was submitting multiple recipes. Yes. And they get their ID in password. There's a way of seeing the recipes that only they submitted. Yes. How do you do that? Is there like a specific change that's set up for each person that shows only their recipes? Or how does that happen?  How do you have specific information tailored to a person who uses it? Sure. So, if the person is logged in, then you can have them automatically sent to a page that only, and it's just one page that you set up. But in the extension that you're using to show all of the entries, you can have it set up so that it only shows the entries for that logged in user. It's not smart enough and it says, okay, this is the user that's logged in, so I'm only going to show these particular recipes on the recipes page. Now, if it's, go ahead. Do you have to create that, or does it automatically do that? Yes, so you just create a page to show recipes, right? And then, I think, I think I showed it. Where was it? This one was for editing, just like it says, show only approved entries. There's another one, another setting where it says, show only the entries for this logged in user. Okay. Maybe, but I'm not positive. So, if you're interested, is this all using gravity? Yes. So, if you're interested in, does that not have an official form builder? Do you guys offer support? Do they have support? Oh, yeah, they have support. Do you know what the name of this extension is? This one is Gravity View. There are other form builders that have it built in. Is that an official Gravity Form dot on, or is it in a third party? Yeah, that's a third party. So, the basic gravity doesn't do this, you have to add on. Yeah, and that's really the whole idea of an official form builder, is that you have the basic form builder and then you have, for whatever it is that you want to do, you have all of these different extensions, kind of like Lego pieces. Not all of them. So, PayPal is free. There's a free Stripe one. For this kind of functionality. Oh, then now this, well, this one is paid, there are a couple different ones. Okay, so I'll send that to you. There are two that are free, and one that's paid. This is the... This is the big one. Does it work? Does it support? Does it break? It doesn't matter. Yeah, he's really good. I know the author and he's really good. So, he'll take care of you. Any other questions? Yes. Do membership plug, I'm not familiar with membership plug-ins at all. Do they, can they also accomplish this? Yes. Well, they won't show entries. They won't show information that's submitted on a form. Really what membership plug-ins are for is for restricting content. So, only show this particular page to this particular membership level. And they will handle the payments. Alright, so the subscription levels. Um... Yeah. So, they're all about membership levels and payments and restricting the content. Restricting the content on your WordPress site to particular membership levels. Okay. Yes? Can that be unique to certain users? So that, like, they may all have the same membership level, but they can only see their content. For membership plug-ins? For membership plug-ins or for a form-builder? For a... think for a membership, yeah. What I'm trying to do, I've got about 600 farms. I want them to be able to come to my website and update me with what they've got on their farm. Okay. So that when I'm distributing the things that need to happen, I know how much it got that I can pull from, but I don't really want other farms to know what that farm is doing. Oh, yeah, so you don't want other farms to see that information. Similarly, the entries and information that a person submits to that person, and then to you, the administrator of the site. So it can be completely private. It's not something that has to be open to the public. Okay. But does it support membership levels? Can it support membership levels or do you really need membership plug-ins? Do you want it to be gold, brown, silver, or whatever? That you would probably need a membership... Well, you can take... Well, yeah, you can take payments for that. One of the examples that I showed you was people upgrading and downgrading their subscription. So people can subscribe to different levels. But now, what the farm builder won't do is restrict content on your site based on the membership level. Excuse me. So, if you want to use a farm builder for very simple membership stuff, you know, you can take the payments and have people log in, but now if you need the membership level... membership level based actions on the site, then a farm builder won't do that. But if you are using like a membership and roles plug-in where you create custom membership levels, that one can partnership with farms? You can, when someone pays on the farm, you can assign them to a custom member role. That member role might restrict access. Well then, yeah, you would need a way to do that. But still on your site, you still have to have a login for each membership plug-in. For each member. You know, that's fine. Any other questions? I think my time is up. Yes? So, are you talking about using a membership plug-in and the gravity for a farm builder to get this kind of structured thing? Well, everything that we did... Everything that I did here was just using a farm builder. No membership plug-ins. Yes. So, my goal here was to show you very simple membership functionality without having to use a big membership plug-in. Because everyone doesn't need that. You know, I would say if you don't need to restrict content, restrict pages and posts by membership level on your site, then maybe you don't need a big membership plug-in. Right? So, it's just an alternative. Like I said, I just want your farm builder to get an interview. Just let them interview for the job, right? And if they don't, if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. You know, no tool is going to work the best for everything. Okay, that's my time. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.


Consent workshops are being held in DCU this week to promote sexual health education. According to a survey and the Irish examiner, most third-level students experience sexual harassment. We spoke to clubs officer Thomas Dorian who describes what goes on in the smart consent workshops here in DCU. In our consent workshops, this is our second year we're doing them. We kind of take students, we discuss what is consent, different forms of consent, so verbal, non-verbal, physical and then we talk about different scenarios. The NUI Galway Smart Consent Research Team conducted a survey of 2150 students of which 71% of women and 63% of men were unhappy with the level of sexual health education they were taught at school. Dr Tracy Harrington, lecturer in Children's and General Nursing, describes the topics covered in the smart consent workshops and why she thinks it's important for all students to be taught about consent. I was asking some of the students the other day and they said because they're not covering to the second level in secondary, they don't even do enough in-depth about the sex ed. I hope that it'll open the conversation, that they'll be more comfortable. The one thing that came out from Monday's session was that students feel really uncomfortable asking for consent or, you know, saying, do you mind if we stop here now? So if we can get rid of that kind of uncomfortableness and open the conversation, it'll open communication between everybody. It'll be much safer environment for everybody. Ashton Fagan, VP for Welfare and Equality shares her opinions on consent. We need to keep educating people. So we've been rolling out these smart consent workshops here in DCU over the last week. We've ran 18 workshops so far. It's a national issue at the minute and it's something that I think most student unions and USI and the government are working on. So as a union, we're very, very passionate about this topic and we'll be continuing to, as I said, embedding it through everything we do and especially coming up to Sexual Health Week, which will be in week two. We've re-rounded it to kiss week, keeping it safe and sexy. We also asked one of the students who participated in the workshops on his opinions on consent. I do think that it's important for students to attend the workshops and to see misconceptions about the whole term of consent because people have different meanings for it and even by law there's different definitions for consent. So to get an overall understanding it's important that students attend.


Good evening everyone. My name is Lauren Miladeo and I'll be moderating tonight. I'm a freelance writer who often writes for The Bridge and I live in Moortown. Tonight's forum is one in a series of forums sponsored by Orch Media and The Bridge. And the goal of these forums is to give candidates an opportunity to share their views with the community and share with voters why they believe they should be elected. We had three candidates tonight scheduled to be with us tonight. Unfortunately two of them could not join us so we're going to do a slightly modified and shorter format from our previous candidate forum evenings. Wayne Townsend who is here with us tonight will answer a couple of questions. And we also have Wayne giving us a statement from his colleague Jackie Clark who unfortunately could not join us tonight. Additionally we can take calls from the public if anyone would like to call in with a question. The number is<PHONE_NUMBER> again<PHONE_NUMBER> and we do welcome any questions from the public. With that I will ask again Wayne Townsend our candidate who is joining us here tonight. Wayne is a Republican from Randolph and Wayne if you'd like to start with your opening statement. Hi I'm Wayne Townsend and unlike my opponents that are sitting representatives I will show up to represent you and keep you informed. I was born at Randolph Hospital right in Randolph Vermont and I grew up on a dairy farm just down the road. We're into my teens when farming got tough and my father was forced to sell the cows and take a job. As my heart was always in farming when I got out of school my dreams were to run my own dairy farm but I couldn't afford to so I started a forestry business starting out selling firewood and building up a company until I saved up enough to start my own farm so I started a farm and I farmed until my money was all gone and then I moved back into forestry where I rebuilt up a forestry company until my little girl was struck down with brain cancer and the doctors gave my little girl three months to live so I had some quick decisions to make. I said for one that's not an option and for two I need to be there for my daughter so the battle lasted for four and a half years so I sold off my forestry equipment that I built up over the years until we beat this and she's still with us today and we beat cancer. So now I took a job with Hearth and Holmes Technologies. I melt iron 12 hours every night, a lot of weeks, seven days a week and I'm looking to represent all of you folks because I understand some of the real struggles that we all face in life and some of the tough policy situations that we've endured and things that we need change on. We need to bring some affordability, accountability and protections for our children within our schools to protect their safeties so that's my opening presentation and now I'll switch over to my running mate. Jackie Clarke was unable to join us this evening because she come down ill so I'm going to read this as if I was Jackie because that's how it's written. Hi I'm Jackie Clarke running for house. I've been a registered nurse for over 35 years, farming for 30 years and I'm a mother and a grandmother. I want to make Vermont more affordable. I will fight against bureaucratic waste and taxes and programs like One Care Vermont which costs Vermonters 25.6 million more than they pay for free Medicaid model including 12.7 million and unaccountable expenditures per our state auditor. We pay 37 million in extra rates to fund solar panels and EV cars. I oppose new heating oil taxes and sales, taxes on groceries, school spending is too high. We have some of the most expensive schools in the country yet proficiency scores are plummeting and that's why I support school choice. With rising crime I want to make our community safe by ensuring criminals are prosecuted and stop the flow of opioids into Vermont. I support small farms. Nothing will do more to benefit the environment than shifting from industrial to local food production. Local agricultural provides clean healthy food for our communities, jobs for Vermonters and preserves our agrarian culture. Please vote for me, Jackie Clarke, to work for you. That was on Jackie's behalf. Thank you, Wayne, for both of those statements. And I should have said at the beginning but I'll say now. Tonight's forum is featuring Wayne who is a candidate for the Vermont House of Representatives, Orange Washington Addison District. There are two seats up for election. The candidates in this race are incumbents Jay Hooper who is Democrat from Randolph Center, Larry Satkowitz who is a Democrat from Randolph as well as Jackie Clarke and Wayne Townsend. So now we're going to move on to a couple of questions and again this would normally be going back and forth but we're going to focus on Wayne. So first off I'm not going to give this question any context because I just kind of want you to jump in wherever you see most of it. What would you say is the most important issue for your district and when you are in the state house how are you going to use that role to improve things for your district? I think right now one of the key topics for everyone is affordability. So I think that we're at a point where the free money that people think are free which is free money that comes from our federal government has about come to an end. So I think this next legislative session things are going to be a little bit or a lot tighter than they have been in the past. We're going to need to make some strong cuts where we can make cuts and without putting the burden on to people because we have to protect all as a whole because we're representing all of the people and not some of the people. So there's other things that are driving inflation.  So some of our legislatures from opposing party wants to submit a clean heating tax which we know that you cannot afford. So like me and my run and mate Jackie we oppose a heating tax and we will not support it but however we are all for protecting our environment. We understand the need for clean air, clean water and to protect our environment for our future generations. But I think affordability is going to be one of the key issues along with some many other key issues that we have within our state. Okay, thank you. Excuse me. Okay, we'll move on to our next question. Vermont is known to be a progressive state but marginalized communities experience threats here just as they do in other places. In view of recent local events that have targeted Vermont's LGBTQ plus communities such as threats surrounding drag queen story hour events and the vandalizing and burning of rainbow and trans flags. Would you support legislative action to strengthen Vermont's bias hate crime statutes? This has been a real hot issue for especially in my local community. I think we as representatives are we're supposed to as representatives understand that we need to represent all people and bring them all the protections that they need. However this situation could have been handled a lot differently in my local community. I'm sure a lot of my viewers are aware of what's going on in Randolph with watching the news and stuff. And the thing is when you take the oath of office you're to uphold the Constitution and protect your people the best that you can. Well these young ladies have a constitutional right to speak up for themselves when they feel that something is not that they feel uncomfortable with. And I think that also nobody in our community is trying to run anyone out of our community. I think there was some safeguards that we could have put in to make things fair for both sides. Our transgenders could have been given their own private bathroom or facility that they could use so that they wasn't anybody making them feel uncomfortable. And also so that they wasn't invading our young ladies' privacies. So I think that we could do a lot of simple things. But at the end of the day we have to remember we all live in these communities together. We don't want to run anyone out of our communities and we can't take the violence on this because there's been some outside threats from out of state. Our local community members we got a lot of good people in my area. We just want our girls to feel comfortable and protected within our schools. Thank you. And I agree with you that all of the girls involved in that situation, whether they were cis or trans, absolutely deserve to be protected. I agree with you on that. Okay, so those were the questions that we had prepared. I will again read off the number for the call in questions. If we have any of those, the number again is<PHONE_NUMBER>. We don't have any call in questions at this time. But we do have time for closing remarks from Wayne. Do you have closing remarks you'd like to offer at this time? Well, like I said, I'm Wayne Townsend and I'm looking to represent all of you. I understand we have some extreme struggles that we're going to face in this next legislative session with affordability, protections, meaning protecting our communities by standing behind our law enforcement and try to curb the opioid epidemic that is plaguing our towns and cities. We also need to bring some safeguards for parental rights and assay to what is going on with our safety of our children and what the school system is allowed to do within our school systems. They seem to think that they can do things without parental rights or having parental parents having to say in what's going on with their children, which I will not stand for any of that. I'm all for parents' rights and assay into what's going on. I'm also disappointed that for decades we have all stood for women's rights, not to see them undermined by a new ideology that's undermined and taken away their rights and protections of their privacies and stuff, but also know that we need to be considerate of other's feelings within our communities and try to work together. I think we need more round table talks to bring all ideas to the table so that we can address these issues in a manner that's going to be beneficial for everyone and nobody's looking to take one side one way or the other. It's just we have strong concerns of the safety and well-being of our children and want their privacies protected. After all, they're our future generation, so we need to stand behind them. Also, I'm a strong constitutionalist, so when it comes to the rights of standing up for our constitutional rights, I'm a firm candidate that will stand behind these rights and not allow them to be infringed upon. Thank you. Thank you very much. I will read that number out one more time in case we do have anyone who wants to call in at the last minute. Again, that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>, and I'm not seeing any questions coming in. So, at that point, I think we can conclude for this evening. I should also mention that another candidate, Larry Satkowitz, who is a Democrat, has provided a video since he cannot join us tonight, and that will be available on Orca's website for you to view as well.


So, today we are going to start with the session number 6, one of my favorite session. It is going to be on actual technicality, art of breastfeeding. You know we all know everybody knows that breastfeeding is important, everybody knows actually and it is not that mothers do not try, they do try okay and I have this experience in US, I have this experience in India with the educated mothers with you know mothers coming from underprivileged background, they all want to breastfeed their children by and large. But the problem arises when they try to breastfeed and when they are unsuccessful, when they kind of develop nipple pain, breast pain, breast abscess, baby is not latching, you know baby is crying, mothers they do try and when they feel that they are not being able to breastfeed, that is when you know things starts kind of falling apart and that is what kind of I experience to in my own experience and also when I started working in you know slums of Mumbai, of course as a pediatrician I was not taught about breastfeeding at all even in US you know and initially like I would kind of teach mothers whatever that I knew and also reading lot of books and guidelines and you know and somehow you know kind of children were not gaining as much weight and working with this poor mothers, it was very important for me to make them understand proper technicality of breastfeeding so that we could do catch up growth because lot of these babies were born small, you know in India as I mentioned our average birth weight is 2.7 which is you know which is much lower than the world average of 3.2, 3.3 kgs and girls and boys respectively. So we did kind of you know worked on different techniques of breastfeeding. As I mentioned initially what we were doing we were using the cradle hold and somehow I felt lot of kind of problems with that cradle hold and of course you know we were using this amazing software which we had created with the help of one of the very famous software company. So what we were doing whatever we were telling mothers we were documented it on that software and we realized that some advices when we gave it was working some of the advices we gave it was not working you know and I have to tell you this one particular experience that I had almost 4 to 5 years in my learning I had this one baby come to me about 2 weeks old girl child and you know I met this mother in fact she lived in my building and she was she looked kind of very tired and she looked sad and she had this little baby in her hand. So I told her that how is it going with you breastfeeding I had never met her before this was the first time that I met her and she said that ma'am you know I am not even to breastfeed her she cries a lot she just does not latch on to the breast and I am basically starting formula.  So I told her I said why did not you you know hold the baby this way exactly how you know it is written everywhere and you know when she was trying to breastfeed baby refused to latch refused to latch we tried half an hour I told her exactly C shape hole you know do this do that and baby refused to latch and then we were almost in tears actually you know working on this for 5 years and then when she tried to then I told mother I said that look what we can do you hold the baby and I will try to direct breast in the mouth you know I will try to hold the breast and I will basically kind of contour it in a way so it becomes easier for baby to latch on. So why she was holding it you know so normally we were told the C shape just by intuition or just by succent you know I when baby opened the mouth you know immediately instead of doing a C shape I just held up because I was looking from from top you know and I held the breast from top and I pressed it as soon as I did that baby kind of latched on you know beautifully and I was like for a second I thought that I made a mistake because normally I would tell mothers and no no no C shape C shape hole and here I as soon as baby opened the mouth I did the U shape you know from the top and I immediately went on the internet because it was like a aha moment and I went through so many kind of YouTube videos and you know nowhere it showed U shape everybody was doing traditional hole and this and that but I came across one video where one of the nurse in fact she was an aeratologist from Stanford University you know and she was showing mothers kind of cross griddle hole with holding the breast in the U shape not from the top but from the bottom and I it just I said it occurred to me that what was happening is that when baby was opening the mouth you know what I what basically I had to do is to put my fingers parallel to baby's lips so it could contour and it was easy for baby to latch on you know and baby immediately kept quiet started sucking and you know and that is how basically this different holding of breast and also way to hold the baby also kind of we learnt our period of time and that is when we started seeing good results and since then you know our weight gain has been remarkable almost 1.1 to 1.2 in fact sometime we see 1.5 to 1.6 kg weight gain per month you know so this was my little story that how you know we came we started kind of improvising this cross griddle technique you know cross griddle means you hold the baby from the opposite end you know opposite hand and you latch the baby on so that is what I am going to explain and again over period of time we know we figured out at what points which were very very important for mothers to understand and once we taught those techniques as well as those counseling points you know we started seeing results okay so today my first part is going to be basically you know just 45 points of counseling which is one of the most important aspect of this you know tutorial of this session and of course the whole course so if you can really understand the technicality of cross griddle hold in 45 points you know 90% of your problems will be solved you know 90% of the time okay so to kind of listen to this very carefully watch it and then practically you can just buy a doll and make a breast model at home and you can you know practice it on of course the model but you know also kind of help any mothers in your family who are just delivered or teach any pregnant mothers you know when the baby is born you practice on mother and the baby because more you practice on a live baby and the mother more efficient you will become okay so let us start with the first point of course this is part one and we are going to talk about I will be including part one part two part three you know it is basically a continuous process and I will make it as elaborate as possible and also as simple as possible okay so let us start with cross griddle hold and 45 points of counseling okay now first thing that we want to remember you know we we are always we have this thing in our mind that when is baby ready to breastfeed okay and most of the time mothers feel that oh when baby cries that is when baby is ready to breastfeed one point you want to remember by the time baby cries it is already too late okay so please do not wait for baby to cry okay you what you can do is to understand those early hunger queues okay so early hunger queues so what are those early hunger queues and you know newborn babies or babies who are small in a two months under two months of age is basically you know they will first thing they will do is they will open their eyes they will kind of squam so they will kind of squam okay and they will start looking around they will start looking for breast so they will open the mouth and then they will move around like this okay so that is important second or third point would be basically you know what they do is that in mid-hunger queue they put their hand in the mouth so they will put them hand in the mouth okay and they will basically kind of salivate and they will become a little bit more kind of squarmy so they move a lot okay third stage they become very irritable they become it is a late queue and they become very irritable they start crying and they are very very you know it is very difficult to console them okay so when do you want to breastfeed you want to breastfeed when they are in early hunger queues so in early hunger queues again they will start squarming okay they will open them out and they will start looking for breast so that is what is the most important early hunger queues that you want to understand okay so here now you have a baby who is small and suppose baby does not wake up say within two hours or so okay now again if the baby is small and you know you want to have a ketchup growth then I do recommend that you should basically wake up the baby after two hours gap in the daytime okay so the way you wake up the baby is basically you remove pretty much all those blankets you know you remove cap you remove mittens you remove socks because when the baby is wrapped too many times they are too comfortable and sometimes they just don't want to wake up okay so once you remove all that extra clothing you know baby does get kind of uncomfortable and then they they wake up okay second thing what you want to do suppose if they are not waking up okay even if you remove all the clothes just with one on see you can keep an on see on if it's cold obviously you can put one more layer you know but don't put too many blankets around baby okay when you're waking up the baby second thing what you want to do is to basically make up make the baby sit so what you can do you just make the baby sit on the lap okay put your fingers on the jaw so there is an angle of the jaw so here is the angle okay so you basically put the jaw put the hand around the jaw okay it should not be on the neck it should be on the jaw okay and then and your wrist is basically resting on the chest so the whole body basically the body is resting on the on the on your palm okay and the other hand is just basically behind the back of the baby okay so and then you just kind of tilt the baby a little bit forward okay when you tilt the baby a little bit forward what happens is stomach get pressed so here in this position okay so this is a perfect position to wake up the baby now I like this position a lot even for burping the baby okay because in in us also in our unit we used to burp the baby when small babies we used to burp the baby like this so remember to kind of make the baby sit see here do you see how baby is kind of bend forward little bit you don't need to pat the baby or you don't need to move your hand you know just kind of support the back like this okay and in front it should be like this don't hold it too close just it should be just kind of near ears okay so I am holding it near the ears not on the neck you don't want to put your fingers on the neck because what happens is in the neck you have so you don't want to press your neck baby's neck you know that it will cause problem okay so just on the jaw on the on the back mandible this is a bone called mandible so you want to touch near the mandible okay so now if baby is hungry baby will immediately wake up the first thing baby does when you put them in a sitting position they open the eyes so they open the eyes wide wide open okay and then you kind of stimulate little bit and that's when baby kind of is ready to breastfeed make sure that you don't put the baby on the breast because baby's sleepy if baby's sleepy they will just go back to sleep okay so if baby's not waking up just put the baby back and again you can try and within a half an hour or so now at night I do recommend that baby should be breastfed at least three to four times now at night if baby is not waking up after three hours then I would wake up the baby at around say at the end of three hours you know because you don't want to go too long because then again you know I see that baby's don't then put on good amount of weight okay so that's one important point that I want to discuss so now now mother's preparation okay now what is mother's preparation so before basically kind of holding the baby or touching the baby what mother needs to do is to wash her hands really really important because you know kind of mother has touched so many surfaces you know mother probably changed a diaper mother has done so many other things you want to make sure that she has clean hands before she touches the baby okay so even before she picks up the baby you know on this I mean remember I talked about the early hunger queues so that mother this is just the thought process that mother is going through so this was the thought process that I mentioned that she should know when to start feeding the baby so if she feels this is a time to feed the baby to wake up the baby or baby's squirming the first thing she does is wash her hands so before she touches the baby tell her to wash her hands with soap and water okay little warm water if she has access to warm water that would be great if she doesn't have warm access to warm water then it's fine too so use soap and water wash your hands okay and then tell her to drink one glass of water okay so that's about 8 ounces 240 250 ml of water now this water has to be clean okay so if you have access to filter water of course that's that's the most preferable one but if you don't have filter water what you can do is to just kind of tell mother to boil water and then just you know keep it at a room temperature and then so boiled in kind of room temperature water that she should have it immediately before breastfeeding now why this is important because as you know that you know mothers get very busy okay and when she has a small baby she has to feed every hour and half two hours you know then she may have to do some work at home she may have other children you know lot of what happens she forgets to take care of herself and here in this situation when she is she is probably getting you know 750 to 850 ml of milk and sometime if baby is catching up then they she will get even one to one and a half liter of milk you know so if the latch is good she you know the weight is so good that definitely mother gets more than one liter of milk and if you have twins then she will probably get one and half liters of milk you know so in that scenario even with singleton baby I do recommend mother should sit down relax and drink some water because if she drinks her water what is going to do is she it's going to relax her plus it will hydrate her because as I mentioned they get so kind of worked up that they forget to drink water they forget to eat you know of their food you know mothers they get mad really new mothers you know even worse so just make sure that you know you mentioned to her the kind of council her relax drink water one glass of water take a deep breath you know think about good things because it oxytocin release you know this is the hormone which releases your you know kind of milk from breast you know it releases milk right so that for release of it's called letdown reflex so that letdown reflex you need a hormone called oxytocin okay oxytocin is also called love hormone okay and you need to have that relaxation that's when mother will feel loved she will have this you know kind of motherly feeling and immediately she will relax and the milk will come out okay so for that also I recommend just tell her to tell her to relax think of some good things think of you know if she wants you can listen to some light music if she has access to or you know kind of don't be on phone keep that TV away you know not all those lot of activity surrounding her okay so there we are now she drank water okay now what she has to do she has to basically pick up the baby so if she suppose baby is sleeping on the bed okay of course I do recommend that if mother can sleep on the floor with the baby that would be great because lot of time when the baby is sleeping on the bed there is a risk of rolling rolling down you know so I personally do recommend that you know when the baby is small it's better to kind of be on on the floor on the bed much better so now she's sitting down okay she has a baby next to her so first thing and obviously baby is right there so she doesn't need to walk and get the baby but if baby say in the crib or say in the Jhula she will have to bring the baby okay she will have to kind of put the baby next to her while she's preparing to breastfeed okay but remember she has to touch the baby only while after washing her hands and drinking some water okay so now here I've got the baby out of Jhula and I'm ready to breastfeed on my bed okay so I'm going to put the baby in front of me okay and I'm going to prepare myself the way I'm going to prepare myself is first I'm going to find a comfortable position to sit okay so if it is a bed then I can sit on the bed I have to make sure that I have a pillow behind my back okay if I don't have a pillow at least I need to have a wall or a kind of you know a board of bed where I can rest pillow will be great because that will kind of give me comfort on my back okay say for example I'm a mother so and then another thing what I want to do is I want to kind of relax kind of fold my you know legs if I'm sitting on the chair then I can put my legs down but I want to make sure there is a support on my under my feet okay because the feet needs to be supportive if it's dangling in the air it could be very uncomfortable for the mother so make sure that we have a support under the under the feet okay so here now I'm ready to breastfeed here I'm sitting down with my legs folded with back supported back straight very important that you keep your back straight it should not be drooping down it should not be very kind of stressed you know just relax okay and then just prepare yourself okay now next point would be to open the clothes okay so one thing which is very very crucial most of the mothers that we see they have this habit of wearing bra and shirt which are basically not front open lot of time you know they wear a kurti but then they just lift up the kurti and lift up the bra so what happens like for example I'm going to show you on this breast model so here is the breast model and what is happening is mother is kind of lifting up the bra so now that tight bra is sitting on the breast okay it is basically kind of denting on the breast what is happening when you have something which is pressing on the breast so here we have basically kind of you know milk is formed in the alvuli over here and then milk is kind of flowing out or kind of getting collected in the collecting duct okay so when you have a something pressing on the collecting duct duct means like a canal where the milk is coming out okay and if something is pressing on the duct what will happen the milk will form but it is not flowing out so now the milk will continue to form in that kind of round you know cells I mean I am not going to use too many of these milk terms because I know many of you are not medical doctors or you know nurses so again you know when the milk is forming and then and that milk flow does not have a proper kind of way to come out then milk will continue to form and then it will become bigger and bigger and that area will become in flame it will become red because that milk is not flowing out it just collecting in one space okay now what will happen mother will kind of feel the swelling in the breast and then if suppose that swelling is not relieved then what will happen eventually the infection will set in once the infection sets in then they develop breast abscess and once the breast abscess develops then you know obviously she has to go to surgeon surgeon will kind of cut the you know you know abscess remove you know pass from it and it becomes so painful and many times then mothers stop breastfeeding on that side okay so this is another very important point and our 45 points we have created this is so that to prevent any complications in the future okay so this is another important point is to tell mothers that not to press anything on the breast it should not there should not be any tight clothing there should not be any tight bra if she wants to breastfeed tell her to buy clothes which has buttons till the navel and she has to remove each and every button okay and then basically make sure that she does not wear bra if possible but if she even wear bra she if she wears bra then she can just remove the button and keep it completely open at least till while she is breastfeeding you know at that for a for say 30 minutes 40 minutes when she is breastfeeding tell her to just remove it is much easier to do that okay then she won't develop any of this complication okay so now she is prepared she is she's removed her breast you know she has opened her breast nothing is pressing on the breast now she's going to take the baby okay so here it is that here she's going to take the baby okay and then she's going to you know kind of remove all the clothes and just keep one on c or just one pair of clothes if it's cold then of course second layer is fine cap is also okay but I prefer that while mother is latching the baby at least well she's learning how to latch you know remove the cap because it will be much easier for her to you know to kind of hold the baby and learn how to latch the baby or how to position the baby okay so that's that's really important so again remove all the blankets remove cap you know and then wake up the baby by putting the baby in a in a sitting position you know kind of hold it you know a little bit forward and then now she's ready so now what she's going to do so here is the baby I'm going to first thing what I'm going to do now remember that baby does not have neck control in first two months of age okay so she will have to continue holding the head okay so that she baby does not have a bubbly neck okay so here now what she's going to do she's going to basically hold the baby from the back okay and then here she's going to support okay with her with her elbow joint and immediately hold it like this okay now I'm going to discuss this this is called positioning of the baby because mother is now ready to breastfeed okay so mother's preparation is done now what she's doing she's now positioning the baby because this is this is very important aspect because here now what we're doing we are landing the baby to be ready to breastfeed so this is called landing the baby also called positioning of the baby okay so now this is the cross cradle hold in cross cradle hold what happens suppose I'm going to breastfeed from left side okay that means this hand is going to be open okay but I'm going to hold the baby with the opposite hand this is called cross cradle so the hand which is in cross to the breast that I'm going to breastfeed from I'm holding the baby from that side that's why it's called cross cradle so now first thing what I'm going to do I'm going to put this baby's legs under my armpit it should be really kind of embedded make sure that it is held tight because a lot of what happens if if it is not held tight what happens baby keeps slipping when baby keeps slipping then it becomes very difficult for baby to latch on just by mouth okay so to have a good latch latch means mookie pakar it's like you know how holding the breast with the mouth okay so for that to have a good holding of breast by baby's mouth you want to have a perfect position if there is a perfect position it will be very easy for mother to latch the baby it'll be very easy for baby to get the milk transfer okay so first thing you want to do is you lift the legs up under the armpit okay and you basically what you can do is to put baby's hip little bit on elbow joint so this is what you want to do is put the elbow joint just at the angle of the elbow okay so here this is ready and make sure that both the legs are held properly now look at the position of baby okay now position of baby is absolutely horizontal do you see this is absolutely horizontal lot of time when I see mothers they do this now this is this is not horizontal this is diagonal so you don't want to diagonal you know baby you want to have absolutely horizontal position okay here what I'm doing now look at this now there are four important points of positioning remember that it's WHO for positioning point one is that baby should be in a straight line so do you see baby is completely in the straight line what do you mean straight line straight line means the neck I mean the the ears so here's your ears okay here's your ears then your shoulder and your hip they all are in the straight line so here in this in this position you know suppose this is a straight baby okay this is a straight baby so here in straight baby what is happening ears shoulder joint and your hip joint is in the straight line okay so exactly when I put this baby like this so same thing ears shoulder joint okay this is shoulder joint and your hip joint and the straight line so this is what I mean by straight line okay many times what happens babies are put like this now imagine you're eating food and if you're putting your head sideways and you're eating you will not be able to swallow you'll not be able to eat but when you see many mothers they breastfeed the baby like this so the the shoulders are on the side so the position is like this ears are in front okay shoulders on side and the hip is on the side and this is how so many mothers breastfeed so if you now look at any mother immediately you should look at it whether whether it's in the straight line or not okay so this is how many mothers breastfeed it's it's so common and that's why so many mothers they can't even uh babies can't even breastfeed it's like we cannot eat like this sideways okay we have to keep our body straight similarly same thing happens so you make sure that baby is in straight line so here baby is in straight line now okay and if I bend it backward there you go so this is the straight line of baby's body okay one more time ears shoulder joint and your hip joint straight line okay all right now what is happening so now baby is in a straight line now there should be full body support okay imagine while you're eating imagine that you're eating adults are eating and you're hanging in the air you will not be able to swallow you won't be able to it could be you know it's kind of very scary situation where you don't have support right what support do we have we have gravity support right so when you have a gravity support basically you sit uh you know you have you can sit properly and you can eat well right similarly here baby's against the gravity means if you don't hold the baby baby will immediately fall right so in this position you want to make sure that you hold the baby full body support is extremely important okay so what you can do full body support look the legs are supported right the hip is supported right and back is supported with my hand and the neck you know neck just the back part of the head is supported also right so this is important that keep the body full body support is extremely important okay all right so that is your second point so one more point in positioning is like when you bring the baby uh you know to the breast okay so we already spoke about a straight line you know tummy to tummy or chest to chest and then nose to nipple I would say neck to nipple one more thing you want to make sure that many times mother has this habit of kind of drooping forward okay so kind of tell mother not to bend forward you know lot of time what happens is baby is in kind of on the pillow and she's bending forward what she has to do she has to sit straight and bring baby up okay so that is important that is to bring baby up don't droop down don't kind of stoop down okay second thing is um when you're holding the baby this where you hold the baby from head is very important many times what mothers do they hold the baby like this this is not the way to hold because what happens when you press the head like this again the neck will get bent forward okay so you don't want to have a neck forward like this you know you want to have a neck backward so the way you hold it you want to kind of see there is there are two bones over here okay so you want to basically uh mastoid bones they are called so you basically touch or hold on the mastoid bone and then put your fingers just around it not not on the back back of the head okay and then you kind of bring the baby a near to nose so near to nose why near to nose so that your your neck is bent forward if you bring nose to nipple what happens basically you're you know your your uh head would be straight you know your neck would be straight you want to bend it a little bit backward okay so you bring the neck baby a little bit downward so that way when I open the mouth that's when the lower part of the roller core in the mouth I will again discuss it uh why that near to nipple is very important because that is called landing of the baby okay all right third point you keep the baby so close to the mother okay you tell mother that keep the baby is uh kind of chest close to mother's chest because if baby is close to mother's chest it will be so much easier for baby to latch on well because if baby is too far like you know for example if the neck is twisted then what will happen the the the chest is facing up it should not be facing up it should be facing the mother okay so baby should be extremely close to the mother okay and this is how basically they will come now the fourth point of positioning is nose to nipple now that is also again WHO point very very important nose to nipple but when you bring the baby to the nipple you want to make sure that uh nose is kind of it's near to nipple okay now what is this near to nipple? near to nipple is uh what you can do is suppose for example you're bringing the baby to the breast okay to the nipple then the the nose the near of the nose is facing the uh nipple okay so that is very important I will talk about it later why it is important so here for example I'm going to show you again okay so in this position baby's neck is extended okay and baby's facing the breast directly okay baby's not facing up like this make sure that baby's face is not looking at the mother again when we're eating food we always look at the uh uh you know the the dish we don't look up right we look up when we eat we always look in in the plate so mothers baby's plate is mother's breast so let baby look directly at the uh breast okay and then you uh look you ask but the baby to look up not you can't ask my baby but just basically what you want to do is you uh lift up baby's neck backward now why why is it important to lift up the baby a little bit backward does anybody uh I'm going to explain to you why it is important to kind of uh lift baby's neck backward this is because what happens is while you're drinking water okay so when you drink water remember that we always kind of lift up our neck a little bit and then drink water right so if you have a bottle you always kind of lift up your neck and then drink water right when we if we have water and if we kind of say put our head forward we will not be able to swallow this is really really important okay because if we if we don't do that you know we will be able to uh you know if we don't uh extend our neck then we won't be able to swallow similarly when you're bringing the baby to breastfeed it's important that we extend the neck backward okay so here it is extend the neck backward okay and this is how it should be do you see and make sure that the near of the nose is in the line of nipple if it goes too high up like if it's coming too high up like this what will happen then baby will have to bend forward okay to breastfeed so you do not bring the baby too high up bring it baby a little bit lower the baby has to extend her neck okay so in this position you pull the baby's leg a little bit downwards you know towards the other side okay so baby will be able to extend the neck or you will have to help baby to extend the neck and then to reach out basically baby will kind of latch on okay so this was the two two parts that we talked about first part was mother's uh you know uh position mother's readiness second thing is baby's position so this is where we complete our you know first part of how to position the baby to the breast okay thank you so much


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebrakes.com. We just sold out 19-20 panini prism, one pack solid break, random teams number 55 on jaspyscasebrakes.com. These are the last six spots that were open and available to win in our last dance basketball mixer. We have a chance to win an autograph Michael Jordan car. So just remember we do the break, 30 spots, no veteran base card ship, randomize customer names and teams, open up the solid pack, distribute the hits. Then at the end of the break, we randomize only the customer names in a separate dice roller randomizer. And top six will win a spot each in the $160 last dance NBA mixer. So here you go, Kenneth down to Brian, and then we got Hawks down to the wizards. So let's roll it, and we got four. So from Kenneth down to Brian four times, this is number 55, correct? Yes. One, two, three, and four times. Anthony down to Stephen. And let's go four times. Hawks down to the wizards, one, two, three, and four. Heat down to the clippers. Anthony at the heat, down to the business Michael the Mavericks Kings, Brian with the Bulls, Stephen, Stephen, sorry, SKS with the Knicks, Brian Crouch Roars, Kevin with the Pacers, Rick with the Thunder, Chris, you have the Sun Spurs, Rodney with the Nuggets, Kevin, Jeffrey with the Hawks, Jeremy Muller, you have the Pelicans, Stephen with the Grizzlies, Derek with the Nets, Chris with the Hornets, Joe with the Lakers, Ryan with the Jazz, Kenneth with the Blazers, Chris with the Cows, Matt with the Raptors, Kenneth with the Celtics, Anthony with the T-Wolves, Brian Crouch, you have the 76ers, Kevin with the Magic, as well as the Bucks, Chris with the Wizards, Jeremy with the Rockets, and Stephen with the Clippers. All right, quick 30 seconds, you guys want to make trades, and now we're going to start the break. Again, several dice, we're going to randomize it, we'll give away the last six spots. All right, Ken's trying it. Boston for Lakers. Are you watching, Joe? Let me know if not. This is just for the one-pack break, though. Just remember that. All right, sorry, Ken. Just going to close it. All right, good luck. RJ Barrett, rookie, followed by Darius Bazzy, retail green, Brian Clark, Paul Gasol, Yannis, Anna Kyrie. Now let's switch teams. Again, give away the last six spots. Good luck. Let's roll the dice, and we got four and a six, 10 times. Good luck. Let's copy and paste the original list of seller customers in number 55. 10 times, four and a six. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Whoa, what the hell? You used your quota of random bits for today? There's a quota now?  I'm going to try it again, guys. I've never seen this before. All right, that was weird, guys. Let's redo it again, then, I guess. Sorry, that's never happened before. 10 times, one. Whoa, okay. Do we have to sign up? Do we have to have an account now? Jeez. Where's the quota page? Oh, wow. We have to pay for randomizers now. All right, hold on one second. I just don't want to mess with anything, especially we have certain stuff. Let me see what's going on here. That was weird. Hold on one second, guys. I'm going to pause this video and see what I can do here. All right, welcome back, guys. Yeah, for some reason, I guess Round.org has this allowance now. I mean, I'm sure maybe more tech-savvy customers or people here would be able to fix it, but there's always a backup option, which we use Psychic Science, which is psychiccience.org slash random list. So this one actually doesn't show you the amount of times I've randomized it per se, but it will tell you who's at number one down to number 30 or how many lists are in the names on the lines. And again, it stopped right before I was supposed to get to 10. So as you can see, we still wrote the same dice. There's a timestamp, six and a four. Now we're going to random this. Top six, get that spot. And I guess we'll have to use this for the rest of the night. So good luck. And I can use physical dice. One. So as you can see, showed one right there. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. All right. There's a timestamp. Is there nine? And just to show you guys, it was a 10. 10 the final time. Boom. 10 times. Kevin. Stephen. Kenneth. Michael. Rick and Chris. There you go. Top six after the 10 times. So they go, well, I'll put you now into the mixer. And then coming up next is the last dance basketball mixer, jaspyscasebricks.com.