Proper breastfeeding
How to breastfeed? Instructions, videos, pictures and tips on proper breastfeeding
Breastfeeding – the process of feeding a newborn baby milk mother. Last before that time until the child starts to eat independently. Pediatricians recommend breastfeeding toddler at least a year since Breastfeeding is very useful for children. Usually in the period after the first year, parents are already beginning to make the baby, usually, as the child appears in the child’s interest in food.
How does the process of feeding the baby breast?
On the first day after childbirth, the mother of the newborn usually feeds him, lying in bed.
Before feeding, Mom washes his hands with soap and handles the area of the nipple and the arole sterile tampon, moistened with potassium permanganate or furacinyline. Then the child is put on a sterile napkin so that he then it was convenient to capture the nipple, the head should not be strongly trapped.
Brief instruction on proper breastfeeding
- Mom index and middle fingers supported breasts, a little pulling it away, so that the nasal breathing is not very difficult to press the breast.
- Nipple, who mom sticks to your fingers to put the child in the mouth in such a way that he can capture her lips and the nipple.
- The first droplets of milk are better to start to feed.
- After feeding, breasts should be labeled with watering water with soap.
- Then lubricate the nipple with vaseline and cover it with a piece of sterile gauze.
Proper position of mom during breastfeeding
During feeding Mom should occupy a comfortable position. This provision should allow her during the feeding time without any problems to keep the child in the chest.
It can be absolutely any, to choose your mom, position: lying, sitting, half off, half off, standing.
The correct position of the child
Before breeding a child, it should be turned the breast to his chest. The child himself must be close to the chest so that he does not need to reach it. The child should be gently pressing the body, the head and the baby’s body must be located on one straight line.
During feeding hold the child himself, and not only shoulders and head. The baby’s nose should be kept on the same level with a nipple, the child’s head turn a little to the side.
After feeding Hold a child 10-15 minutes in a horizontal position. This will allow the air, which got into the stomach of the child during feeding. Then put the baby on the side. This provision will allow him to jump off and will not be aspiration (milk getting into the respiratory tract).
How to apply kid to chest?
- Take the breast so that four fingers are located below, and the larger finger on top of the chest. It is desirable that your fingers are located as far as possible from the nipple.
- In order for the child to open his mouth, a nipple touch his lips. It is better that the child’s mouth was wide open, sponges stretched into the tube, and the tongue was in the depths of the mouth.
- Make sure that the child captures the Nipple and Nipple. The lower lip of the child should be below the nipple, and the chin should touch the chest.
What to do if breast feeding is impossible? If, by virtue of the circumstances, your child is still needed, it is necessary to properly approach the choice of the mixture. In such cases, experts recommend a mixture as close as possible to breast milk so that the child has no metabolic disorders, an allergic reaction, skin and digestion problems. Closer to the composition of female milk Adapted mixtures on goat milk with protein beta-casein, for example, gold standard baby food – MD MIL SP «Goat». Thanks to such a mixture, the baby receives all the necessary substances that help the children’s body correctly formed and develop.
If you correctly attach a child to the chest, his lips and gums will put pressure on the Nipple AREOLU, and not on the nipple itself. It makes feeding painless and pleasant.
Video instruction: how to breastfeed
Recommendations for breastfeeding specialists
To make an applied to the baby’s breast with a simple and easy process, you should take advantage of the following tips:
• before feeding should calm the child if he behaves restless or cries. When the child behaves like this, he raises the tongue, which may make it difficult to feed.
• Remember that the child should be closer to the chest, and not vice versa.
• Apply the child to the chest easily, without pressure, otherwise he will try to turn away and fight in every way, which is very difficult for feeding;
• It is not necessary during feeding to move the chest like when feeding from a bottle, it may prevent the child to hold the breast;
• If during feeding you felt pain – this suggests that the child is incorrectly attached to the chest. Touch the lips of the baby with your finger so that it opens his mouth. And attach to the chest again.
• When feeding the child is applied to the same chest, and the next time the chest is changed. If milk from one breast is not enough, then you should read the child from another. The next feeding is applied to that chest, which was fed the last.
How often do you need to feed the baby with breasts?
Child should be fed upon his demand. But a nursing mother needs to learn to distinguish when the child cries from the desire to eat, and when for any other reason.
In the first days of life, a child can eat 10-14 times a day. And about two weeks later, the child begins to produce its individual nutrition rhythm. On average, the child eats every 2-3 hours.
- In the first month, the amount of feedings balancing in the area 8-12 times a day.
- And already in the second and third month about 6-8 times.
- From four months, the amount of feedings decreases to 6-8 times a day.
Do not take night breaks. At night, feeding for the child is very important and necessary.
10 principles of successful breastfeeding
WHO and UNICEF in Geneva and 1989 were formed.
- Strictly adhere to the basic principles of breastfeeding and regularly bring these rules to medical personnel and women in labor.
- Teach medical staff with the necessary chest breastfeeding skills.
- Inform all pregnant women and benefits and techniques of breastfeeding.
- Help mothers Start breastfeeding within the first time after delivery.
- Show mothers how to fed breasts and how to keep lactation, even if the mothers are temporarily separated from their children.
- Do not give newborn any other food besides milk. The exception is cases due to medical testimony.
- Practice around the clock finding a mother with a newborn in the same chamber.
- Encourage breastfeeding at the request of a newborn, and not on schedule.
- Not to give newborns at the initial stage of breastfeeding of soothing means imitating women’s breasts like nipples.
- Encourage and direct mothers to breastfeeding groups.
Tips for nursing mom
- For greater amenities, use special feeding clothing. It is made specifically that the child is easy to apply to the chest as the emergence of such a need.
- Frequent feeding, abundant drink and a full-fledged rest help the generation of milk.
- Breast milk occurs often enough, so use special chest lips.
- To not be pulled out during the day try to sleep yourself, while the baby is sleeping.
