However, the American Academy of Pediatrics discourages against stopping breastfeeding
in jaundiced babies and suggests continuing frequent breastfeeding, even during treatment.
Not exact matches
Well... I think this is a tricky subject because the first 24 hours people, especially people
in hospitals, really want to monitor a
baby and make sure that they aren't getting
jaundiced, etc. (although all
babies get it a little).
With
baby 2, also traumatic delivery, also
jaundiced, I stopped trying after a day as I felt my mental health needed to be tip top
in order to look after both my boys.
If breastfeeding
babies are perceived to not be breastfeeding well, to be
jaundiced or to have low blood sugars then routine practice
in many Irish maternity units is to suggest that the mother give artificial milk to «top up» the
baby's breast - feeds.
Research shows that
babies that were breastfed for nine or more times
in the first day had very limited chances of being
jaundiced on day 6.
So if you keep putting your
jaundiced baby to the breast, he will receive a lot of colostrum and that will result
in a lot of bowel movements, which will help the bilirubin to clear rapidly.
You might start with putting your
baby in the sun when he is a little
jaundiced, but what's next, skipping vaccines and putting breast milk
in his eye when he has pink eye?
Also, if the
baby is
jaundiced or sick
in anyway, they will not let the
baby go up to the malonit.
Jaundice
babies don't want to feed very well which then potentially decreases how much milk they take
in and so which makes them more
jaundiced.
She assured me that it can be normal for
jaundiced babies to take a while to gain back to their birth weight and that my milk was just late coming
in.
Then the other one is breast milk jaundice when the emphasis is on the milk and they really don't know exactly what it is but usually it's after ten days,
babies stayed
jaundiced and they think there's something
in the milk that causes the
baby to be
jaundiced.
Well thank you so much Rose for your insight
in Breastfeeding the
Jaundiced baby and to our panelists as well for sharing their experience.