Benefits of breastfeeding
(1) Benefits for the child: Breast milk is the best food for the baby and can meet all the nutritional needs of the baby for 6 months;
(2) Benefits to the mother: promote uterine contraction, reduce postpartum bleeding and anemia; help the mother to regain her body shape; reduce the chance of breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
(3) Benefits to the family; convenient, economical, and promotes family harmony.
(4) Benefits to society: It is conducive to improving the physical quality of the whole nation, and helps the development of children’s intelligence and social skills.
Second, what is exclusive breastfeeding
The importance of exclusive breastfeeding within 6 months and continue breastfeeding until 2 years old or above
(1) Increase the affection between mother and child
(2) Preventing milk swelling
(3) Reduce nipple illusion and infant allergy
(4) To avoid inadequate milk production by the mother due to the addition of foods other than breast milk that reduce the number of times the infant sucks
(5) To increase the infant’s immunity and prevent infection.
(3) The importance of early skin contact and early milk initiation after delivery
Helping to maintain the body temperature of the newborn.
Reduce crying and enhance the emotional connection between parents and children.
Stimulate the mother to breastfeed early, so that the newborn can learn how to breastfeed.
Enhances the bond between mother and child
Promotes contractions and reduces the mother’s bleeding.
The importance of 24-hour mother-infant room
(1) It can fully ensure breastfeeding on demand and promote milk secretion
(2) It can strengthen the parent-child attachment, increase the mother-child relationship and the opportunity to properly start breastfeeding, and can enhance the mother’s confidence in breastfeeding her baby. It enables mothers and infants to establish a successful breastfeeding relationship.
(3) Mothers can learn about breastfeeding and newborn care
(4) Reduce the chance of cross-infection in newborns
V. Maternal breastfeeding posture and infant’s position of containing and receiving
(a) Correct breastfeeding posture.
The four points of holding the baby well when breastfeeding
(1) The child’s head and body are in a straight line.
(2) The child’s face is to the breast and the nose is to the nipple.
(3) The mother holds the child close to herself.
(4) In the case of a newborn, the mother should not only hold his head but also his buttocks.
(B) The correct position for suckling
(1)Open your mouth wide
(2) Lower lip turned out
(3) tongue in the shape of a spoon around the areola
(4) Cheeks bulge in a circular shape
(5) More areola visible above the infant’s mouth
(6) Slow and deep sucking of the infant
(7) Swallowing can be seen or heard
(3) The correct way to hold up the breast
Use your hand in a “C” shape to hold up the breast, with your index finger supporting the base of the breast and resting on the chest wall under the breast, and your thumb on top of the breast.
The importance of breastfeeding on demand
Breastfeeding on demand means that the baby should be fed when the baby is hungry or the mother feels her breasts are swollen, and there is no restriction on the time, number of times and interval between breastfeeding. Frequent and effective sucking of the breast will promote more milk and ensure that the mother has sufficient milk.
Seven, how to ensure that the mother has sufficient milk?
1.Mother and baby in the same room
2.Breastfeeding on demand
3.Frequent and effective sucking
VIII. Breastfeeding under special circumstances, such as AIDS, viral hepatitis, etc.?
Hepatitis B.
If the mother is positive for hepatitis B virus e antigen (HBeAg), the incidence of vertical mother-to-child transmission is 85-90%, and if the mother is negative for HBeAg and positive for HBsAg, the incidence of vertical mother-to-child transmission is 32%. Mother-to-child transmission during breastfeeding can be prevented by vaccination against hepatitis B is the most effective method.
Breastfeeding is possible
Breastfeeding of HIV-infected mothers
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV occurs mainly during the three stages of pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding (intrauterine transmission, intrapartum transmission and postpartum transmission). Postpartum breastfeeding is also an important transmission route for mother-to-child transmission because HIV is contained in the milk of HIV-infected mothers.
Our proposed infant feeding policy is: promote artificial feeding, avoid breastfeeding, and eliminate mixed feeding.
Nine, how to insist on breastfeeding after the mother goes to work?
The mother should learn to express and store milk for a period of time before going to work, and wait until the mother is not around the baby after going to work to eat the stored breast milk, and the mother can kiss and feed at the breast again when she returns home from work. The mother has to learn how to express and store breast milk.