8 TIPS ON PROPER BREASTFEDDING
- Breast size has no bearing at all on the ability of a woman to breastfeed her baby. Woman with small breast sometimes produce more milk than those with full heavy breast consisting mostly of fatty tissues.
The milk is formed in the glandular tissues that develop during pregnancy and passes to the small sacs in the breast and out through the nipples.
- Ask your obstetrician or nurse what to do to prepare the breast, especially the nipples, during pregnancy, to avoid sore nipples later on.
- If you will deliver your baby in a hospital, ask your doctor if your baby can be brought to you for nursing as soon as possible, instead of being given a bottle as practiced in most if not all hospitals.
It is believed that the watery fluid called colostrums which precedes milk provides the infant a natural immunity from infections. The colostrums also serve as a milk laxative that cleans out the first stool or bowel movement the baby passes out after birth.
- Even if you cannot continue breastfeeding your baby, breastfeed him while you can or during the rest in bottle feeding to give you that wonderful feeding of holding him close to you while feeding him.
Some working mothers give their babies their breasts when they are at home at night to make up for their than anything else.
- The Baby’s nursing stimulates the flow of milk more than anything else.
A baby may nurse frequently (every two hours) at first but will later prolong the intervals between feedings.
When he is about one month or six weeks old, he may even want to nurse all the time, apparently sensing that to get more milk he must nurse harder and more frequently to two days until the supply of milk has built up or stabilized to satisfy him. Avoid rushing the nursing process and let the baby set his own schedule.
- The best nursing position is lying down with pillows to prop you up. Or sit down on a comfortable chair (the rocking chair is better), holding your baby in your arms.
Relax and rest while nursing your baby. Offer one breast first and let the baby suck for Wight to 10 minutes, then offer the other breast. It will take the baby more time to empty the second breast.
Both breasts must be emptied or they will be painfully gorged and less milk will be produced because there will be less room for it.
If the baby fails to empty both breasts despite all your efforts to make him continue to suck, it may be necessary to express the milk by hand or by using a breast pump (mamador).
Ask a nurse to show you the right technique n letting the milk out of our engorged breasts without too much pain.
Do not pull the baby’s moth or lips from our nipple. Instead, press the breast nearest the baby’s mouth to release the suction and thus avoid tugging the nipple and making is sore.
To prevent the cracking of the nipples, hold the baby in a different nursing position each feeding session so that the nipple will crease in different directions.
Do not wash nipples with alcohol to water before feeding time; this eliminate the naturally secreted oils that protect the nipples from drying up; daily bathing is enough for overall body cleanliness.
7. Ask your doctor what to eat after delivery your baby is you plan to nurse him. As a rule, your diet should be the same as during your pregnancy, with more intake of milk and protein foods.
In the rural areas, clams with malunggay or sili leaves are given to nursing mothers to enable them to have more milk.
Your doctor may prescribe iron tablets or vitamin preparations. You must ask for his advice before taking any drugs.
8. Tension and emotional problems and fatigue can reduce milk production of nursing mother. So the best rule a nursing mother to follow is to just relax and don’t make yourself too tired.
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