Breast milk – the best food for the child. It provides an organism of the baby with all substances, necessary for his health and growth; it contains digestible iron, polyunsaturated fatty acids and some proteins. Advantages of breastfeeding are obvious, and after the birth of the kid mom needs only to adjust this process. In it not to do her without small cunnings and, of course, the patience and experience.
Instruction
1. When mom with the newborn baby reunite after the delivery, it is important to give them the chance to stay together, to anew recognize each other. At this time endorphins – happiness hormones which promote development of a maternal instinct and colostrum are thrown out an organism of the woman. The lactoacidophilic bacteria, antibodies, vitamins and minerals which are contained in it, getting to the child's organism, create an immune barrier, protecting the kid from dysbacteriosis, staphylococcus and other misfortunes. Therefore you watch that your kid was put surely to a maternal breast at once after the birth.
2. To adjust breastfeeding, offer the child a breast as soon as he begins to worry, groan, show signs of discomfort. At first it will be difficult for you to understand whether on the business the baby it is hungry, or he cannot fall asleep, is painful to him. Applying to a breast will help to solve any of these problems. There will pass a little time, and you learn to distinguish the valid needs of the of the baby.
3. Breast milk quickly and easily is digested therefore it is necessary to feed the baby more often than at artificial feeding. Sometimes it is necessary to do it 6-8 times a day, sometimes 10-12 times. But do not wait until the kid begins to cry. It is the latest, desperate method of the baby. It can show the hunger a set of other ways: to smack the lips, do sosatelny movements by language and lips, to bring handles to a mouth, etc.
4. Allow the kid to be full, without paying attention for hours during feeding. The baby can eat constantly or parts, having a rest in intervals. If the kid spontaneously stops sucking, try sdelayt a break. And then offer it the same breast to give the chance to receive fatter "back" milk. If the child refuses, he means already it was sated.
5. At each following feeding offer the baby other breast – that which "had a rest" at previous. Try to eat fully: a breakfast, a lunch, a dinner and small having a snack between them. Do not forget to drink at emergence of feeling of thirst, have a rest together with the child when he sleeps. Naturally hot drink (plain water, tea) and also close emotional contact with the baby stimulates a lactation. After feeding it is not necessary to be decanted, milk is developed during sucking of the kid (on demand). Also comes it so much how many the child eats. Most of children needs to eat at night. By the way, night applyings to a breast help to increase amount of milk. That it was more convenient to you, put a bed of the baby nearby or you sleep together.