Sunday, July 29, 2007

How to breast feeding

How to breast feed your infant/newborn?This is specially brought for new parent who never experience breast feed before. But for those parent who are not sure about the proper way of breast feeding do have this as reference. It is simple and easy seven steps during breast feeding.

  1. Put your thumb on top of your breast and other fingers below the breast.Dont touch the arelo (dark skin around your nipple) because this is where your baby's lips will be.
  2. Try putting your baby's lips to your nipple until he opens his mouth widely.
  3. Slightly push your nipple all the way in your baby's mouth and push baby's body close to you.This help by letting your baby's jaw squeeze the milk ducts under arelo.
  4. To make sure your baby is latched on the correct position, check the lips of the baby, it should be pout out (not be pulled in over his gums) and cover nearly all of the areola.
  5. Newborn will make some low-pitched swallowing noises.Baby's jaw may move back and forth.
  6. If you feel pain, this indicate that baby is not properly latched on.
  7. Your baby's nose may touch your breast during nursing.If you fear that your baby cant breathe, gently press down your breast near baby's nose to give him more room to breathe.

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