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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.

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.

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.

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 of the author