Sentences with phrase «for early feeding cues»

Watch for early feeding cues rather than following a rigid schedule and offer the bottle before the baby is too hungry.

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Rooming - in should be practiced by all mothers regardless of feeding method to ensure that ample opportunities are available for skin - to - skin contact and early learning of infant feeding cues.

With your baby so close, you are also able to pick up on early hunger cues, such as rooting, sucking and tongue movement, before baby becomes upset, making feeding easier for both you of you.

For six of these steps, substantial improvement in reported hospital implementation occurred from 2007 to 2013, including having a model breastfeeding policy (11.7 % to 26.3 %), assessment of staff competency (44.6 % to 60.2 %), early initiation of breastfeeding (43.5 % to 64.8 %), rooming - in (30.8 % to 44.8 %), teaching feeding cues (77.0 % to 87.3 %), and limiting use of pacifiers (25.3 % to 45.0 %).

Several modifiable risk or protective factors have been identified, such as infant feeding mode (bottle vs breastfeeding), parental responsiveness to infant feeding cues and infant distress, the age of bottle weaning, timing of the introduction of solid food, sweetened beverage consumption and lack of physical activity.84 — 88 Inactivity can delay motor development and further increases the risk for early childhood obesity.85 89 — 91

One risk factor for excessive weight gain in early childhood is the degree to which parents» feeding practices are responsive to children's cues of hunger and satiety [4 — 7].