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Guide to Breastfeeding With Pictures
If you're like many new mothers you have some thoughts about breastfeeding. You know that breast milk is the ideal food for your baby, and that it protects against sickness and helps baby's brain grow. With some supervision, planning, patience and practice, you can breast feed your baby successfully either through normal process or with the help of trusted breast pumps. We visited two families at the hospital on baby's second day of breastfeeding. We trust the highlights of our visit will help you get breastfeeding off to a good start.
STEP 1. Hi What is the best time to eat?
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You will find feeding easier if baby is interested but not too hungry. Start feeding before your baby is crying. Look for early feeding cues, like this vigilant face and open mouth. Tongue and hand movements are also signs that baby is ready to eat. But keeping in mind that your breast milk is the most trusted.
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STEP 2. Help for Sleepyheads!
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Mostly babies are sleepy for quite a few days after birth and every mother want to give their baby trusted feed. To get baby ready, Dad can undress him down to his diaper and hold baby in an upright position. By softly massaging and walking his fingers up baby's back and talking softly, he will help baby become more prepared and interested in eating. Usually babies want to play with different things, you can use Breast pumps by which your baby can have proper feed and can play with the soft bottle.
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STEP 3. What About Mom?
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Assemble the things you'll need to be relaxed. If you have to go for your appointment with your doctor or you have some other problem you can use trusted breast pumps which helps you a lot in feeding your baby and you can be their in time if not then take few slow breaths. Nip some water and keep it in the reach. There is not a single best position for breastfeeding. You can take a chair or be seated on a sofa. You can sit or lie in bed. Use pillows, cushions, a nursing stool—whatever you need to support your back and feet. Your goal is to be able to support your baby to take breast milk without straining your back, neck, arms or shoulders.
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STEP 4. Make sure that your baby is in rite position
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First make sure that you are sitting in a rite position, then about the position of baby. Mom makes her baby feel secure and supported. A pillow placed at a good height so neither you nor baby has to strain. Main thing is that your baby must be close to your body to breast feed easily. Support her body from her head to her bottom. Your baby should be looking straight ahead at your breast with her head, back and bottom in one line. This mom is supporting her breast with her outside hand and supporting baby's body with her opposite arm.
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Step 4b. Baby must be by your side
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This mom ropes her baby's shoulders and head with her outer hand. Mostly this is known as Football hold .She supports her breast with the opposite hand. To support your breast correctly, place four fingers resting on your rib cage and your thumb resting lightly on top of your breast, back from the areola (the dark part of the breast that surrounds the nipple).
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STEP 5. Nose should be level to Nipple
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Place baby so that when his mouth is closed his nose is level with your breast nipple. When baby opens broad and you move him forward, he will be well-positioned on your breast and if you are using breast pumps for feeding then you can relax or just hold a bottle for baby.
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STEP 6. Wait!
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Wait until baby opens wide then bring the baby forward to your breast. With your supporting arm, move the baby's head and body to the breast. Think and do: baby to breast. Be patient. It will take time and you need some practice. The latch-on may be painful for a moment or two. Continued breastfeeding should not hurt. If it does, most likely the positioning is not right. Then try again. This is a good time to ask for help from any trusted one to make the breast feeding possible.
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STEP 7. What you feel and see
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If baby is positioned correctly, she is tucked in close to the breast with her mouth open wide. Her chin is right up against the lower part of the breast. Baby's nose is near the breast but nostrils are clear and baby can breathe well. Her lips are flanged and she has a good mouthful of breast. At first, some moms notice the feeling of the breast nipple being drawn back into baby's mouth at the start of the feeding. You might also feel a mild to strong tingling sensation in your breast. This is the let-down reflex.
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STEP 8. Dad'watching his baby feed
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Dad play’s a very vital role in breastfeeding. If Dad has a positive attitude it is easier for Mother to begin and continue breastfeeding. New dads can learn about breastfeeding along with Mom. And dads have their own ways to look after and play with baby as Mom had to go some where and she had left her breast milk in trusted breast pump then Father can feed his baby with the support of pumps. Babies love to snuggle against Dad's warm chest.
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When baby latches on, he will take a few rapid sucks and then begin to suck a bit more slowly, deeply and in time. He will pause from time to time and then continue. The pauses will get longer as the breast feeding continues until it is complete.
Try to get baby interested in feeding every couple of hours during different sessions of day. There is no need to wake your baby unless he sleeps longer than four or five hours, your breasts are disturbingly full or your baby's health care provider tells you to do so.
Is Baby Getting Enough?
You'll know your baby is getting enough to eat if by the time your baby is a week old he has:
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At least six or more wet diapers each day (urine should be pale yellow)
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Three or more bowel movements each day (stool will be soft, yellow and seedy-looking)
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Steady weight gain—most babies are back to their birth weight in about a week and gain 4–8 ounces per week for the next few months
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Periods of happiness for an hour or two after most breast feedings
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If you think your baby is not getting enough to eat, call your health care provider right away.
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Guide to Breast Feeding