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This is the first of a series
of articles that we will publish related with breastfeeding
How to breastfeed
- Wash your hands with soap and water.
- Wash your nipple with boiled water.
- Hold your baby and sit comfortable.
- Hold your breast with your index and medium fingers.
- Introduce your nipple and areola (dark part of the greast)
inside the baby's mouth.
- Let the baby feed during 10 minutes on the first breast, in
the second one he/she can stay up to 20 minutes if the baby wants.
- Begin with he breast in which he finished the last time.
- Put your small finger inside the baby's mouth in order to take
out your breast easily.
- Let the baby burp, giving him/her soft strokes on the back.
- When you put the baby sleep, lay him/her down on one side.
Avoid letting the baby face up or face down.
- If you still have a lot of milk in your breasts use a pump.
- Wash your nipples again with boiled water. Leave them to dry
with the air.
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Advantages of breastfeeding for your
baby.
- It has all the nutrients your baby needs up to 6 months of
age.
- It protects from infections.
- It makes your baby less prone to vomiting.
- Less gases and colics.
- You baby's kidneys work with less effort.
- Develop face, tongue and throat muscles.
- Fortify the affective communication between mommy and baby.
- It is the perfect moment to stimuli his/her five senses and
the communication.
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Advantages of breastfeeding for mommy
- Avoids bleedings.
- Every time you breastfeed your baby, your uterus contracts and
returns faster to its original size.
- Reduce the risk of breast cancer..
- You lose weight faster.
- Milk is always available in any time, any place and at the
perfect temperature
- Feeding your baby you feed not only his/her body but his/her
necessities of love and stimulation.
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It is very important that you breastfeed you baby.
Let the baby have it any time he/she wants. With time your
child will learn to eat every 3 or 4 hours during days and will stop during night.
Extracted from:
"Stimulation. health and nutrition of the baby"
("estimulación, salud y nutrición del niño desde recién
nacido")
Author: Beatriz Manrique.
Reproduced with authorization.
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