Are you a new mom is planning on breastfeeding?Breastfeeding your baby is one of the best things you can do the baby. It offers a variety of health benefits. Here are some tips on how to make it easier for you.
So this list is for you! We've compiled some tips to ensure a relationship of breastfeeding success with your new baby.
- Drink a glass of water every time you sit down with a nurse - this will help you make sure to drink plenty of fluids.
- Try to place the baby in as soon as possible after birth. Ideally, this should happen right in the delivery room. Make sure your doctor will allow the nurse in the room during childbirth or delivery, if everything goes normally.
- The minutes of age, babies often just dragged to the chest from the abdomen of the mother, breastfeeding and start their own. This process can take up to an hour or more, but the mother and baby should be given this time together to start learning from each other. Babies who "self-attach" a lot less breastfeeding. The SSC also keep the child warm.
- Try to get professional help, such as a lactation specialist. At the hospital, if you ask a lactation consultant or nurse who knows breastfeeding can observe your technique. If you leave the hospital before receiving any instructions, so make sure someone with breastfeeding expertise to evaluate your technique.
- If possible, try to stay in the same room with your baby.
- Limit visitor # to allow more opportunities for nursing. This may mean limiting the visiting privileges at first a little about your spouse. It is probably better anyway, and that lets you paste three at once.
- Mothers and babies learn to sleep in the same rhythm. So when the baby starts waking for a feed, the mother will also begin to wake up naturally. The baby shows long before he starts crying that he is ready to feed. His breathing may change, for example. Or it may begin to stretch. The mother, who is in light sleep, waking her baby milk will start flowing and calm just a nurse.
- A baby who cried for a while before they tried on the breast may refuse to breastfeed even if he is hungry. Mothers and babies should be encouraged to sleep side by side in hospital. It is a great way for mothers to rest while feeding. Breastfeeding can be relaxing, not tiring.
- If possible, try not to use artificial nipples.
- Babies will take whatever method gives them a rapid flow of fluid and may refuse others that do not. Thus, in the early days when the mother is producing only a little milk and the baby receives a bottle from which he obtained a rapid rate, it will tend to prefer the rapid flow method. Just because the baby will take "two" does not mean that the natural method is more advantageous.
- Nurse request, up to twelve feedings per day. This will keep your children happy and increase milk production to meet demand as it grows. Do not let the baby sleep through the diet. If it's three hours since the last babies, so it's time to wake.
- Nurses as long as the child wants. Most infants require 10-45 minutes to complete a power supply.
- Do not impose too many restrictions on length or frequency of breast-feeding.
- A child who drinks not be the breast for hours at a time. So, if he is, it's usually because they do not suck well and not get the milk that is available. Get help strengthen the child still and compression to get more milk the baby.
- Do not try to feed your baby if he cries. If tears are starting to do some rocking and soothing before starting nursing. You can also offer your finger to suck until the child calms down.
- The key to successful breastfeeding is the right firm. Before leaving the hospital should show you how to get the child correctly understood. You should also know that he is in reality always the milk from the breast.
- Position yourself comfortably with back support, pillows supporting your arms and your knees and your feet supported by a footrest or a telephone directory.
- Position baby close to you with his hips flexed, so it need not turn his head to reach your chest. His mouth and nose should be oriented towards the nipple. If possible, ask your helper to hand you the baby when you're comfortable.
- Support your breast so it is not pushing the baby's chin. Your baby's chin should drive into your lap.
- Attach or latch baby on your chest. Encourage him to open his mouth wide and pull close to supporting his back (rather than the back of the head), so that his chin drives in the chest. His nose touching the breast. Your hand forms a "second neck" for your child.
- If you feel pain, release the baby gently and try again.
- While you are comfortable and the baby is breastfed successfully, use what works for you. There are a variety of breastfeeding positions to try.
- It 's very important to get the baby to your nipple height. Place your baby can cause back pain, neck and shoulder tension, or sore nipples
- Establish an appropriate closure. This eliminates a lot of pain and tenderness is often associated with breastfeeding, and allows the child to take milk more easily.
- Avoid artificial nipples.
- Do not limit the duration or frequency of breast-feeding.
- Sleep when the baby is sleeping!
- Wear your baby! Wear your baby in a sling for easy nursing.
- Avoid bras and tight clothing in the first weeks after birth, in order to treat sore nipples.
- Use pillows to support you and your baby during breastfeeding.
- If you have pain while breastfeeding, ask your doctor or lactation specialist.
