Early breastfeeding requires more focus, more effort, more hands on, more «props» than the later, easy, multitasking breastfeeding that is to come.
Not exact matches
One aspect of health care reform that got
early attention from the media were changes to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
requiring employers to provide working
breastfeeding moms private breast pumping rooms.
In a study of over 1000 mothers, approximately 60 % of them stopped
breastfeeding earlier than they were planning to continue before their babies were born, and they cited concerns about difficulty with lactation, their babies» nutrition or weight gain, their own illness or need to take medicine, and the effort
required to pump breastmilk (Odom, Li, Scanlon, Perrine, & Grummer - Strawn, 2013).
This will not inhibit your ability to
breastfeed but may
require some special assistance as you and your baby learn to nurse those
early days.
Basic care for all newborns should include promoting and supporting
early and exclusive
breastfeeding, keeping the baby warm, increasing hand washing and providing hygienic umbilical cord and skin care, identifying conditions
requiring additional care and counselling on when to take a newborn to a health facility.
In some infants
early pacifier use may interfere with establishment of good
breastfeeding practices, whereas in others it may indicate the presence of a
breastfeeding problem that
requires intervention.169
An infant must learn to attach and suckle properly at the breast during the first few days of life to successfully establish
breastfeeding.1,, 2
Early oral experiences that
require sucking mechanics different from those
required for
breastfeeding are believed to contribute to the development of improper latch and subsequent
breastfeeding failure — a problem described as nipple confusion.2 — 4 The avoidance of pacifiers was included as 1 of 10 steps for successful
breastfeeding in the 1990 Innocenti Declaration on maternity services and
breastfeeding, and many experts recommend that mothers who are
breastfeeding avoid exposing their infants to artificial suckling experiences including use of pacifiers.5 — 7