Tips To Manage Breast Feeding

Breast feeding is preferable to feeding with infant formulas and should be encouraged. There is no better nutrition for healthy infants at term and during the early months of life. Some take to it naturally but others will not do well without guidance. Lets see...

1. The mother should be adequately nourished during pregnancy.


2. She should have watched others breast feeding and talked about it.


3. The baby should be put to the breast as soon as possible after delivery.


4. Frequent suckling stimulates prolactin secretion. Suckling more than six times a day maintains high basal prolactin.


5. Relaxation and privacy are needed.


6. After delivery the baby should be in a crib next to its mother all or most of the time and suckled whenever it seems to be hungry. Colostrum is a concentrated anti-infective fluid.


7. The baby should not be given other complimentary milk or juice - only water if necessary.


8. The baby should feed from both breasts each time and start the feed with the breast used last.

To start breast feeding the mothers should know the Advantages Of Breast Feeding.

1. Breast milk is micro biologically clean.


2. Only breast milk provides a complex range of anti-infective components.


3. Breast feeding reduces the risk of gastrointestinal, respiratory and other infections, SIDS, childhood lymphomas, early allergic diseases, and type 1 diabetes.


4. Mothers milk is always at the right temperature.


5. A mother can always change from breast to bottle feeding but not the other way round.


6. Breast feeding is natural and may confer advantages that science has not yet discovered.


7. Breast milk's nutrient composition is the standard against which infant formulas for bottle feeding must be judged. Many of the differences between cows' and human milk have been minimised in modern infant formulas, but by no means all and some nutrients such as iron and zinc are known to be better absorbed from human milk.


8. Mothers are more likely to lose the fat stores put on during pregnancy if they chose to breast feed.