Summary
1. The colostrum
2. The medicines and the breastfeeding
3. Nourishment during breastfeeding
4. The breastfeeding positions
5. Tips in breastfeeding
1. In the first days, colostrum is secreted, which is very important for the baby, because it contains antibodies.
2. During breastfeeding, medicines should be avoided and used only with the doctor's advice. It is the doctor who will tell you whether breastfeeding should be discontinued during the treatment.
3. Nourishment during breastfeeding: meat, fish, eggs, cereals, dairy, vitamins, calcium, iron, iodine.
4. Natural birth allows you to get close to the newborn.
In the case of natural birth, mobilization is much better than in cesarean delivery.
In the case of a cesarean, breastfeeding causes unbearable pains when you place the baby on your chest.
But, to avoid just a little bit of the pain, you can use the breastfeeding techniques described below.
So breastfeeding positions are as follows:
• the newborn with his head, his shoulders and his hip in the right line, being supported on his mother's arm,
• on one side in bed
or
• face to face (in the case of the cesarean).
5. Tips in breastfeeding:
Pay attention to how to place the baby at the breast, so as not to cover his nose!
To place your baby on the desired side, you have to run a cotton diaper and put it behind the baby (watch the baby all the time!).
The newborn must catch the nipple and some of the areola to avoid the occurrence of nipple cracks.
See the next article, Postnatal depression.
