your baby nourishment
1. Discuss it. Talk to women who are breastfeeding or who have breastfed, and learn from them. If possible, watch babies at the breast to get an idea of the process. Take a class in your community or online. Breastfeeding support groups both online and in-person can provide information and support.
2. Contact is key. Keep your baby skin- to-skin with you immediately after birth, and nurse within the fi rst hour. Sleeping in the same room as your baby and staying together as much as possible will also help with breastfeeding. Carrying your baby in a sling or a soft baby carrier during the fi rst few weeks with your baby can also help the breastfeeding process.
3. Connect. In order for your baby to remove milk effi ciently, a deep latch is necessary. Your baby comes to the breast chin-fi rst, tongue down and forward over the lower gum line, head tilted slightly back.
A deep latch allows you to be comfortable while your baby gets the milk needed
A deep latch allows you to be comfortable while your baby gets all the milk needed. Your baby should be lined up tip of nose to tip of nipple, not mouth to nipple, which will cause “reaching” for the nipple by lean- ing back slightly and opening very wide.
Skin-to-skin contact will calm your baby, making breastfeeding easier
4. Know the hunger signs. Babies will use cues when hungry, such as waking up wide-eyed and putting their hand into their mouth, drooling or licking, head bobbing “searching” for the breast, pushing their legs in a frog-like motion or crying. To begin breastfeeding, start with skin-to-skin contact, which will calm your baby more quickly, making it easier to breastfeed. Your baby may cycle through these cues several times before latching.
Carrying your baby in a sling can help the breast- feeding process
5. Your baby will need to eat often. Newborns can nurse as many as 16 times over the course of 24 hours for the fi rst few weeks. They need to eat at least eight times a day. But don’t be alarmed if your baby nurses in clusters instead of about every two hours for the fi rst month.
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