How to Feed an Infant Brochure
Benefits of Breastfeeding
Providing infants with human milk gives them the most complete nutrition possible. Human milk provides the optimal mix of nutrients and antibodies necessary for each baby to thrive (babyfriendly).
Steps to Breastfeeding
The first time you hold your newborn in the delivery room, put his lips to your breast. Your mature milk hasn’t come in yet, but your breasts are producing a substance called colostrums that will help protect your baby from infection.
· Put your entire nipple into the infant's mouth so the infant can latch on correctly, if feeding becomes painful, your infant is not properly latched on.
· Encourage breast feeding on demand.
· Give newborn infants no food or drink other than breast milk, unless medically indicated.
· Give no pacifiers or artificial nipples to breast feeding infants.
· Don’t hesitate to ask a nurse to show you what to do while you’re in the hospital
How often should you nurse?
· Frequently. The more you nurse, the more quickly your mature milk will come in and the more milk you’ll produce.
· Nursing for ten to fifteen minutes per breast eight to 12 times every 24 hours is pretty much on target.
Feeding Behavior
It is important to know and understand the development of a baby’s mouth patterns and hand and body control. The ability of a newborn baby’s to only suck and swallow liquids is due to their limited level of development and the way their mouths are designed (usda).
Infant’s Readiness to be Fed
· Rooting Reflex- When a baby’s mouth, lips, cheeks, or chin are touched by an object, the heads and mouth turn towards the object and the baby opens its mouth. This reflex allows baby to seek out and grasp nipple (usda).
· Suck/Swallow reflex- After opening the mouth when the baby’s lips and mouth area are touched, suckling or sucking movements begin. As liquid moves into the mouth, the tongue moves it to the back of the mouth for swallowing (usda).
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