1) when to start Brast feeding in a newborn baby? Breast feeding should be started as early as possible in all newborn babies regardles of the mode of delivery whethere it is cesarean section or normal delivary. Sometimes the mother may be sedated after the ceasaren surgeory but the baby should be put to breast as early as possible.
2) What is the best feeding technique for the newborn baby?
When suckling, the baby should hold the areola (dark area around the nipple) in its mouth and not just the nipple. Hold your baby in the crook of your arm, with the baby's upturned face towards you.Make sure that the baby's mouth and chin are near the nipple.The baby should hold the areola and the nipple inside its mouth, with its lips curled out.The baby's chin should rest on your chest.To facilitate this, in the beginning, the mother should slightly raise the nipple and insert it in the baby's mouth, with the upper areola just covered by the lips.The baby will feel the urge to suckle and will start sucking strongly and will swallow properly.It will look calm and contented.Importantly, this method reduces pain in the nipple, which some mothers feel.After feeding or in between, do not abruptly remove the baby from the breast.Slowly insert your little finger in the baby's mouth, open it, and then gently remove the breast.This prevents injury to the nipples.While breastfeeding, always feed the baby from breast and only when it empties out, then switch the baby to the other.A simple way to remember this is to wear a bangle in the arm from which side you are feeding and then, at the next feed, switch over.It is a fallacy that the right breast has food and the left breast has water.The sooner this is dispelled the better or else engorgement and hardening of breasts will take place.Not only are these painful but also can have long-lasting side effects.Always burp the baby on your shoulder after every feed.
3) Are fruit juices, soups etc. recommended in the initial few months after birth?No, after birth for 4 months nothing else except mother's milk is required. Other things can be harmful
4) Should gripe water, ghutti etc. be given? No, their use is unscientific and can be harmful.
When suckling, the baby should hold the areola (dark area around the nipple) in its mouth and not just the nipple. Hold your baby in the crook of your arm, with the baby's upturned face towards you.Make sure that the baby's mouth and chin are near the nipple.The baby should hold the areola and the nipple inside its mouth, with its lips curled out.The baby's chin should rest on your chest.To facilitate this, in the beginning, the mother should slightly raise the nipple and insert it in the baby's mouth, with the upper areola just covered by the lips.The baby will feel the urge to suckle and will start sucking strongly and will swallow properly.It will look calm and contented.Importantly, this method reduces pain in the nipple, which some mothers feel.After feeding or in between, do not abruptly remove the baby from the breast.Slowly insert your little finger in the baby's mouth, open it, and then gently remove the breast.This prevents injury to the nipples.While breastfeeding, always feed the baby from breast and only when it empties out, then switch the baby to the other.A simple way to remember this is to wear a bangle in the arm from which side you are feeding and then, at the next feed, switch over.It is a fallacy that the right breast has food and the left breast has water.The sooner this is dispelled the better or else engorgement and hardening of breasts will take place.Not only are these painful but also can have long-lasting side effects.Always burp the baby on your shoulder after every feed.
3) Are fruit juices, soups etc. recommended in the initial few months after birth?No, after birth for 4 months nothing else except mother's milk is required. Other things can be harmful
4) Should gripe water, ghutti etc. be given? No, their use is unscientific and can be harmful.
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