Sentences with phrase «facilitates early breastfeeding»

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Benefits that carry over into the immediate postpartum period facilitating secure attachment and bonding, early and successful initiation of breastfeeding, quick recovery, no separation of newborn and mother, and newborns transitioning smoothly.

Maternal recording of the time of each breastfeeding and its duration, as well as voidings and stoolings during the early days of breastfeeding in the hospital and at home, greatly facilitates the evaluation process.

Newborns should be nursed whenever they show signs of hunger, such as increased alertness or activity, mouthing, or rooting.85 Crying is a late indicator of hunger.86 Newborns should be nursed approximately 8 to 12 times every 24 hours until satiety, usually 10 to 15 minutes on each breast.87, 88 In the early weeks after birth, nondemanding babies should be aroused to feed if 4 hours have elapsed since the last nursing.89, 90 Appropriate initiation of breastfeeding is facilitated by continuous rooming - in.91 Formal evaluation of breastfeeding performance should be undertaken by trained observers and fully documented in the record during the first 24 to 48 hours after delivery and again at the early follow - up visit, which should occur 48 to 72 hours after discharge.

Simultaneous feeding of two babies is likely to stimulate simultaneous let down, and can facilitate feeding if one infant has weak sucking, however the practicalities of this can be hard to manage without help in the early stages of breastfeeding, particularly if two hands are needed to encourage a satisfactory latch (Flidel - Rimon 2002; Gromada 1998; Multiple Births Foundation 2011).

While some women may find that breastfeeding multiples is straightforward, mothers of multiples may have more difficulty offering early and continuous skin - to - skin contact with their infants, there may be delay in initiation of feeding at the breast, the infants may have a disorganised or immature sucking pattern as a result of prematurity and the demands of facilitating frequent feeding are more challenging (Bennington 2011; Cinar 2013).

The contribution of bacteria through vaginal delivery followed by exclusive breastfeeding promotes specific microbial profiles that facilitate optimal nutrient metabolism and early systemic immune training.23 The potential short - and long - term effects of perturbations of the gut microbiome of infancy, as influenced by operative delivery or formula feeding, are beginning to be examined.

The argument is that it facilitates bonding of mother to child and also help with early breastfeeding capabilities.

Although I have lots of training in the basics, my role is to help facilitate early initiation of breastfeeding through skin - to - skin contact immediately after birth.

The intervention was not aimed at facilitating breastfeeding, rather the trial compared women who were randomized to early hospital discharge with telephone follow - up (with home visits by nurses only for those women who left hospital within 36 h of the birth «to encourage them to leave the hospital early») versus usual care with later discharge from hospital.