New England Mothers First (NEMF) is an independent Nurse Practitioner practice specializing in breastfeeding problems and
infant feeding difficulties.
Neifert attributes most of the low supply to problems such as sore nipples and
infant feeding difficulties, but she says 4 percent of the 319 women appeared to have chronic low milk supply.
The study authors provided data from multiples for infant morbidity (jaundice,
infant feeding difficulty, weight loss, dehydration, illness not related to jaundice / feeding, ER visit, and hospitalisation) at two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge, and measures ofmaternal satisfaction (amount of information on feeding your baby, clarity of information on feeding your baby, amount of help with feeding your baby, and total satisfaction with care), assessed in hospital, two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge.
Not exact matches
Seven months later Katie was pregnant again, and Luther repeated a phrase which had been made before on the
difficulties of a mother swiftly pregnant again while still nursing a previous
infant: «It is difficult to
feed two guests, one in the house and the other at the door.»
The most common ones included general
difficulty with
infant feeding at the breast - such as an
infant being fussy or refusing to breastfeed - nipple or breast pain and not producing enough milk.
Wallace, H and Clarke, S Tongue - tie division in
infants with breast
feeding difficulties Int J Pediat Otorhinolaryngol 2006; 70:1257.
Seek the advice of your pediatrician and / or an early intervention evaluation by an occupational therapist or speech therapist trained in
infant feeding if your baby has
difficulty with coordinating the suck / swallow / breathe pattern, chokes or gags during
feedings, loses a lot of liquid during
feedings and can't form a seal on the nipple or has a tongue tie.
The most established risk seems to be that newborn
infants can experience a transient withdrawal syndrome at birth with symptoms such as excessive crying, jitteriness,
feeding difficulties, and irritability — but the symptoms normally go away within two weeks.
Mothers are more likely to have
difficulties forming an attachment with the
infant.20, 25 This may be because women are less likely to hold and breastfeed their
infants after birth and have rooming - in and because of the
difficulties of caring for an
infant while recovering from major surgery.Babies are less likely to be breastfed.9 The adverse health consequences of formula
feeding are numerous and can be severe.
For all narcotics, the risks to nursing
infants include excessive drowsiness,
difficulty breathing and poor
feeding.
Symptoms in
infants include constipation, weakness (loss of muscle tone, weak cry, and weak sucking), droopy eyelids, and poor
feeding due to
difficulty swallowing.
The top 3 reasons for stopping breastfeeding are
difficulty with
infant feeding at the breast (52 %), breastfeeding pain (44 %), and milk quantity (40 %).
Damage to the brain or central nervous system, which may cause
feeding difficulties in an
infant
Breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants1, providing protection from morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases2 and chronic diseases later in life.3 Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended, starting within one hour of birth and for the first 6 months of life, with continued breastfeeding to 2 years of age and beyond.4 However, rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding and breastfeeding duration have fallen since the widespread introduction and promotion of breast - milk substitutes.5 Successful breastfeeding depends on a number of factors, including a re-normalisation of breastfeeding as the
infant feeding method of choice through antenatal counselling and education and breastfeeding support to prevent and resolve breastfeeding
difficulties.
We would like to point out how the Baby - Friendly Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria indicate ways to provide lactation support to mother
infant pairs with
feeding difficulties:
Many
infants in the NICU or SCN may have
difficulty sucking, swallowing and breathing, which might make nipple
feeding impossible.
Women who have given birth by caesarean section are less likely to be mobile, less able to care for more than one
infant at once, and may have more
difficulty finding a comfortable position to
feed (Bennington 2011; Flidel - Rimon 2002).
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).
Medela understands the
difficulties of providing human milk in the NICU: by the time milk is ready to be
fed to the
infant, it has gone through a series of procedures and processes that may jeopardise its quantity and quality.
If your
infant has those symptoms plus irritability,
feeding difficulties, inadequate weight gain, coughing, choking, or wheezing after
feeding, it may be a sign of a more serious condition known as GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease).
I myself dealt with both of my twins having severe reflux as
infants, and
feeding continues to be an ever - present
difficulty in our lives.
Affected
infants typically develop
feeding difficulties, a lack of energy (lethargy), a failure to gain weight and grow as expected (failure to thrive), yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice), liver damage, and bleeding.
This is an important group to consider because combination
feeding is common, for example, in the first few days in the hospital when lactogenesis II is delayed while a mother's breast milk is becoming established, among mothers who have
difficulty producing adequate milk and supplement their own milk with
infant formula, or among mothers who are unable or choose not to pump breast milk when separated from their babies.
Tongue tie division in
infants with breast
feeding difficulties.
Perhaps women who used pacifiers breastfed less frequently and were more likely to wean their
infants earlier than mothers who avoided pacifier use for reasons unrelated to breastfeeding
difficulties, but deriving from
infant feeding beliefs and / or parenting styles.
The fathers of the intervention group were interviewed and offered a face - to - face, 40 - minute session about
infant feeding and the
difficulties sometimes associated with breastfeeding, such as fear of milk insufficiency; transitional lactation crisis; return to outside employment; and problems such as breast engorgement, mastitis, sore and inverted nipples, and breast refusal.
Due to their high calorie content, avocados are an excellent food for babies with
feeding difficulties (
infant reflux, for example).
A retrospective review of frenotomy in neonates and
infants with
feeding difficulties.
Feel like your
infant is having more than normal
difficulties with crying, sleeping and
feeding?
Together, mothers find ways to resolve breastfeeding
difficulties, improve their
infant feeding practices, and support each other.
In
infants and young children, these are mainly respiratory and
feeding difficulties.
It can lead to seizures,
difficulty feeding, respiratory complications and low - birth - weight in affected
infants.
Infants born with NAS are more likely to have respiratory complications,
feeding difficulty, seizures and low birth - weight.
For example, breastfed babies tend to be more robust, intelligent and free of allergies and other complaints like intestinal
difficulties.1 Other studies have shown that breastfed
infants have reduced rates of respiratory illnesses and ear infections.2, 3 Some researchers believe breastfed
infants have greater academic potential than formula -
fed infants, which is thought to be due to the fatty acid DHA found in mother's milk and not in most US formulas.4
Fact:» [N] ot only is violence in families pervasive but that both the children who are victims of violence and those that witness violence that occurs between their parents suffer a great deal and are themselves at risk of using violence as adults (Jaffe, Wolfe & Wilson, 1990; O'Keefe, 1995; Pagelow, 1993; Saunders, 1994; Johnson, 1996)...
infants suffer from having their basic needs for attachment to their mother disrupted or from having the normal routines around sleeping and
feeding disrupted... Older children come to see violence as an appropriate way of dealing with conflict... These children can suffer from serious emotional
difficulties...»
ASBI, Adaptive Social Behavior Inventory; ASQ, Ages & Stages Questionnaire; BAS II, British Ability Scales Second Edition; BITSEA, Brief
Infant - Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment; CDQ, Children's Dietary Questionnaire; CFPQ, Comprehensive
Feeding Practices Questionnaire; NHS, National Health Service; SATS, Statutory Assessment Tests; SDQ, Strengths and
Difficulties Questionnaire.
The
infants» sleep and
feeding disturbances improved, separation
difficulties diminished, maternal sensitivity to
infants» cues increased and intrusive control decreased.