HERE ARE SOME INSTRUCTIONS OF HOW TO CONDUCT CORRECT BREAST FEEDING
1. Having taken a baby on the hands, mother sits on the chair comfortably, puts her legs on a low bench (8 – 11 inches high). Baby’s head should be neither thrown back nor bended down.
2. A mother should make her baby touch the nipple. If a child takes the breast at once, she should quickly try to put the nipple and the areola area into his mouth.
3. If a baby does not respond, his mother may make some movements with her nipple along the baby’s lips, touch his tongue, and pressing with the finger, and, even decant some drops of the milk into the baby’s mouth.
4. A baby should not take only a nipple, chew it, as it does not provide any feeding activity and hurts the nipple’s skin.
5. A baby should be fed from different breasts every time in order they both would get completely empty. If after a feeding process there is still some milk left in the breast, it should be decanted in order not to low the lactation.
Baby’s activity often prevents qualitative milk sucking. He takes the nipple greedily, draws it with all his minds, and inhales the air, which leads to belching of it along with the milk. In order to prevent belching, it is necessary to keep a breast and baby’s head up and hold a baby in a vertical position every 8 - 10 minutes while the feeding process until he belches the air.
During the first weeks of his life it would be enough for a baby to eat from one breast at a time. But if there is not enough milk, and the baby is not fed well, and gains little weight, it is necessary to begin feeding from both breasts. But you should put him to the second breast only after he has sucked the first one completely. If a baby does not suck it till the end, it may lead to milk stagnation and lowering of lactation in the future. Feeding in this way, keep to the following order of feeding: 1st feeding – put a baby to the left breast and then to the right one; 2nd feeding – put him to the right breast and after that to the left; 3rd feeding – to the left and then to the right breast, etc.
While feeding a strong physiological balance establishes between a mother and her child: he sucks as much milk, as he needs. Every feeding should last 15 – 20 minutes, but not all babies suck energetically, in case if he sucks inertly, feeding should be prolonged up until 30 - 40 minutes.
A SUCCESSFUL BREAST FEEDING MUCH DEPENDS ON THE KEEPING THE FOLLOWING RULES
1. Mother should wash the breast with clean hands before every feeding.
2. Some drops of milk are to be decanted in order to get all the bacteria away.
3. After the feeding process, each breast should be wiped with clean, swift piece of cloth in order to avoid nipple cracking.
The Amount of Milk a Baby is to Receive at Different Periods of His Life
To define how much milk is a baby to receive every day; you should multiply the quantity of the days of his life by 70 (if a baby’s weight is less than 7 pounds) or by 80 (if a baby’s weight is more than 7 pounds).
As a rule during the first day of his life, a baby sucks only about 2 -2, 5 ounces. (0, 5 – 0, 7 ounces per one time); during the second day – 4 – 5 ounces, and then your little one adds two ounces every day. A baby, who is one week old, sucks about 0, 5 pounds of milk a day. He gains 0, 1 pound per week. A baby, who is one month old, eats approximately 3, 5 ounces during one feeding and he receives about 1,3 pounds of milk during a day. At the age of four – five months he sucks about 2, 2 pounds of milk every day.
There is no need to get worried, if a child eats less than usually during one or two feedings, as his appetite changes during a day: he may eat less one time, and more the next time.
Beginning from 2 – 6 weeks a baby should receive the amount of milk, equal to 1/5 of his body mass; in 1, 5 – 4 months – 1/6; in 4 – 6 months – 1/7; in 6 – 9 – 1/8 of his body mass.
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