Like everybody else, breastfeeding mothers need to eat a balanced diet. In general, there is no need to change food habits. If a mother perceives that her baby reacts to a specific food she eats, it is best to consult a specialist. Exercise is healthy, also for breastfeeding mothers. There is no evidence that it affects the taste of your milk. They are ready to learn to feed at the breast.
If you do not latch your baby on right after birth, do it as soon as possible in your situation. If you need help putting your baby to the breast, ask for support from a qualified lactation consultant or other skilled professional. Frequent skin-to-skin contact and putting your baby to the breast will help to get breastfeeding going. Breastfeeding protects the mother from diabetes, breast and ovarian cancers, heart disease and postpartum depression.
Mothers may decide they need to use formula on some occasions, while continuing to breastfeed. It is important to seek unbiased information on formula and other products that replace breastmilk. To keep breastmilk production going, continue offering the breast to your baby as often as possible. It can be useful for mothers to consult a lactation specialist or skilled professional to help with a plan that works best for them to continue breastfeeding.
If your child can talk and understand well, talk with them about your breastfeeding. Explain that you are going to stop and introduce other ways that you can enjoy being close together. You could seek professional advice about weaning or difficulties associated with weaning. This page has been produced in consultation with and approved by:. Children should always be closely supervised near animals and taught how to behave safely around pets.
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Medical contraindications to breastfeeding are rare. However, there are some situations in which additional considerations for breastfeeding management are necessary. Family physicians should keep up to date on current evidence and best practices to appropriately counsel patients who are breastfeeding. More details can be found in the appendices of this paper. Breastfeeding babies and parents should be seen for follow-up within a few days after birth.
Family physicians and all health care professionals who regularly care for parents and babies should be able to assist with normal breastfeeding and common breastfeeding challenges. When challenges exceed the expertise of the family physician, parents should be referred to someone with specialized expertise, such as an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant IBCLC.
Practice Level Birthing centers and hospitals need to incorporate baby-friendly principles. Babies should be kept skin-to-skin with the parent at least until the first successful breastfeed. Family physicians should advocate for breastfeeding and provide education about breastfeeding throughout the course of life and for the entire family.
Family physicians have the unique opportunity to emphasize the benefits of breastfeeding and integrate breastfeeding education and support beginning with preconception visits and continuing through prenatal care and labor support, delivery, prompt initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, and postpartum care, as well as during ongoing care of the baby and family.
Family physicians should work in their communities to advocate for removal of barriers to breastfeeding. This could include overcoming cultural issues, encouraging breastfeeding-friendly workplaces, advocating for adequate paid parental leave, and protecting the right to breastfeed in public. Medical schools and family medicine residencies should include appropriate curricula in lactation physiology and breastfeeding management so that family physicians are adequately trained to provide care to breastfeeding parents and infants.
Preconception and prenatal education Ensure that all discussions take place in a culturally sensitive manner. Address the infant feeding decision before conception or as early in pregnancy as possible. Prenatal intention to breastfeed affects initiation and duration of breastfeeding.
Continue to bring up the issue of infant feeding and express support for breastfeeding throughout the prenatal period. Elicit any factors in the family medical history that may make breastfeeding especially important e. Provide appropriate support and education. If possible, document this history and include the labor history of each infant.
Encourage them to learn what is known about breastfeeding for the optimal health of the parent and baby. Encourage the use of a labor support person i. Intrapartum support Provide appropriate labor support intended to minimize use of unnecessary analgesics or anesthesia. Minimize separation of the parent and infant and wait until after the first breastfeeding to perform routine newborn procedures such as weighing, ophthalmic prophylaxis, and vitamin K injection.
Early postpartum education and support 52, 60 Advocate for hour rooming-in for the breastfeeding parent and baby. Advocate for lactation consultation services at all hospitals where maternal and infant care is provided. It is also important to help them recognize signs that the baby is satisfied at the end of a feeding e. Encourage expression of milk within two hours after being separated from the infant. Ongoing support and management Provide evaluation within hours after hospital discharge to assess adequacy of milk intake, newborn jaundice, and any breastfeeding concerns.
Evaluation may need to occur within 24 hours after hospital discharge if breastfeeding was not going well in the hospital. Continue to support breastfeeding throughout the first year of life and beyond at well-child and other visits. Encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life. Consult when breastfeeding concerns exceed your level of expertise. Encourage parents who are returning to work to continue to breastfeed. Family physicians can promote lactation among their patients of various ethnicities in a number of ways, including the following: Learning about the family structure of their patients.
Support from key family members may assist greatly in the promotion of breastfeeding. Resources: AAFP policy statement on breastfeeding: www. Resources: Clinical protocols: Evidence-based clinical guidelines for the care of breastfeeding parents and infants, as well as annotated bibliographies. Useful for hospital and clinical policies. Updated regularly, with translations in some languages available. Resources: Numerous resources on breastfeeding, the law, and education The Joint Commission www.
Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding www. Train all health care staff in the skills necessary to implement this policy. Inform all pregnant [patients] about the benefits and management of breastfeeding.
Help [parents] initiate breastfeeding within one hour of birth. Show [parents] how to breastfeed and how to maintain lactation, even if they are separated from their infants.
Give infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated. Practice rooming-in; allow [parents] and infants to remain together 24 hours a day. Encourage breastfeeding on demand. Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breastfeeding infants. Foster the establishment of breastfeeding support groups and refer [parents] to them on discharge from the hospital or birth center.
The code has significant provisions that require the following: No advertising of any of these products to the public No free samples to parents No promotion of products in health care facilities, including the distribution of free or low-cost supplies No company sales representatives to advise parents No gifts or personal samples to health care professionals No words or pictures idealizing artificial feeding or pictures of infants on labels of artificial infant milk containers Information to health care professionals should be scientific and factual.
ALL information on artificial infant milk, including information on labels, should explain the benefits of breastfeeding and the costs and hazards associated with artificial feeding. Unsuitable products, such as sweetened condensed milk, should not be promoted for infants.
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