Myth: If your breasts don’t become larger during pregnancy or if you have small breasts you will not be able to breast feed.
Truth: Many women will not notice any change in their breasts but will breast feed successfully. Breast size has nothing to do with success in breast feeding.
Myth: If you don’t express colostrums during [...]
Breast feed your baby for at least the first 5-6 months of life. Most mothers may have to return to work before this period is reached. So, how do you continue to breast feed your baby? Your employer may provide a nursery where your baby and other babies can stay. In that case, by all [...]
During the time that you are breast feeding, you must continue to be as careful about taking medications as you were during pregnancy. Anything you take will cross into your breast milk.
Follow this general principle: if you do not have to take medication, don’t. if you have to take medication, make sure your doctor knows [...]
Breast feeding is a natural process. However, the first 2 weeks of breast feeding can be a difficult time especially for a mother having her first baby. Here are a few common problems faced by some mothers:
Breast engorgement
Reasons:
If you do not position you baby properly and put your baby often enough to the [...]
This calls for your own personal taste since the best techniques for feeding your baby are really yours to choose. It doesn’t matter whether you feed your baby sitting up, on your side or when lying down. The golden rule is that both you and your baby have to be comfortable.
You need to get your [...]
You can start feeding your baby as soon as possible after birth or within 1 hour of delivery. This is necessary to get your milk production started. Also, your baby is most alert during this period.
In the first days after giving birth, only a thick yellow ‘milk’ is produced, called colostrum. But don’t worry. Colostrum [...]
The production of milk depends on your baby’s needs and demands. As your baby sucks, the nerve endings in your nipples are stimulated. A message is sent to your brain which causes the production of a hormone, called prolactin. This hormone initiates the production of milk in your breasts. The more your baby continues to [...]
Breast feeding is great for the mother too. Here’s why:
It helps your womb return faster to its normal size and also reduces the chances of severe bleeding.
Good news! Together with exercise, it helps you regain your figure.
It helps delay menstruation if you fully breast feed your baby and decreases the chance of another pregnancy.
It lowers [...]
Breast feeding provides many real advantages your baby would otherwise not get. Here are some:
Breast milk provides the best nutrition for your baby. It contains all the nutrients in the right proportion and its composition changes with the needs of your growing baby.
With breast milk, especially colostrums, your baby’s immunity is strengthened. This means excellent [...]
Children may not be able to help wetting the bed, and that’s important for you to remember, especially on those mornings when you’re faced with sopping sheets. And the problem certainly can’t be “solved” by punishment. It does help to keep a “dry” sense of humour about the situation, which will undoubtedly pass. And try [...]
