Basic breast-feeding techniques

Basic breast-feeding techniques

• Get comfortable. Find a position that is comfortable for both you and your baby. For all positions, make sure the baby's head and chest are lined up straight and facing your breast. Have 2 or 3 pillows and a glass of water or juice nearby.
• Decide which breast to start with. Although it is best to offer your baby both breasts at each feeding, alternate which breast you start with. If the baby takes only one breast at a feeding, which is common in the first day or two, start the next feeding on the other breast. Try to offer both breasts at each feeding.
• Get the baby latched on properly. An improper latch is painful and frustrating. It causes some women to stop breast-feeding. A proper latch-on helps prevent problems such as sore nipples, blocked milk ducts, breast infections, and poor infant weight gain. Position your baby's chest against your chest with his or her head and body aligned straight. Skin-to-skin contact while breast-feeding, especially during the first few days, helps promote bonding with your baby.
  • Start by lightly touching the middle of your baby's lower lip with your nipple until the baby opens his or her mouth. The baby's mouth needs to be wide open, like a yawn, before attempting to latch.
  • With your fingers under your breast and your thumb resting on top of your breast (the "C hold"), bring the baby quickly onto the nipple and the areola (the dark circle around the nipple), so it goes deep into your baby's mouth. You may feel pain briefly when the baby latches on to the breast, especially in the first few days of breast-feeding. The pain should go away in less than a minute. If the pain does not go away after the first minute of breast-feeding, remove the baby from the breast and re-latch the baby. If that fails, try a different position.
  • As you are getting started, if the baby does not immediately get the idea to suck, squeeze a little milk into his or her mouth.
  • Look for signs that your baby is getting enough milk. Listen for a regular sucking and swallowing pattern while the baby is feeding. Dimpled cheeks and clicking or smacking noises may mean that the baby is sucking on his or her tongue instead of the nipple. Remove and reposition the baby. If you cannot see or hear a swallowing pattern, watch the baby's ears, which will wiggle slightly when the baby swallows.
  • If the baby's nose appears to be blocked by your breast, reposition him or her by raising the baby's hips or relaxing the baby's head back slightly, so just the edge of one nostril is clear for breathing. Do not press on your breast to clear the baby's nose, because this pulls on your nipple and may cause nipple soreness.
• Removing your baby from the breast. Any time you need to remove your baby from the breast, put one finger into the corner of his or her mouth and push your finger between your baby's gums to gently break the seal. If you do not break the tight seal before you remove the baby from your breast, your nipples can become sore, cracked, or bruised.
• Switch to the other breast. Offer the other breast when the first breast feels empty and the infant sucks more slowly, pulls off, or loses interest. Usually the baby will continue breast-feeding, though perhaps for less time than on the first breast. At first, the baby may breast-feed only 3 to 5 minutes on one breast. Later, feedings may last 10 to 25 minutes or longer on each breast. These rates vary, and you do not need to time each feeding. Let your baby feed until he or she is satisfied.
• Burp your baby. When your baby is satisfied, gently pat his or her back to help him or her let out any swallowed air. After the baby burps, offer the breast again. Sometimes a baby will want to continue feeding after being burped.

Breast-feeding may go more smoothly in the first days and weeks if you and your baby are relaxed.

• Keep the room darkened. Bright light makes it difficult for newborns to open their eyes.
• If your baby falls asleep before finishing breast-feeding, you may need to stimulate him or her to finish the feeding. (Newborns and babies with jaundice may be hard to keep awake.) Tickle the baby's feet or neck, keep the baby cooler by undressing him or her, change the baby's diaper between breasts, or use a cool damp washcloth on the baby's face. After a while, you will learn your baby's patterns and will know whether he or she needs rousing or has fed long enough.
• In the first few days, you may need to wake the baby to breast-feed every 2 to 3 hours.
• Make sure the room is quiet and warm, and that you are able to relax. Eliminate or ignore distractions, such as the phone.
• Keep something to drink nearby. Most women get thirsty as they breast-feed. Drink enough to satisfy your thirst.
• Avoid using artificial nipples such as bottles or pacifiers, at least until breast-feeding is well established (usually about 4 to 6 weeks). This also means other caregivers should wait to give a bottle to the baby. Feedings should be given only by the mother at the breast. The other caregivers can bond by holding, cuddling, changing clothes and diapers, and generally spending time with the baby.
• Once your baby latches onto your breast and is feeding well, try using a pillow or receiving blanket to maintain a comfortable position for both of you. Many women get sleepy while breast-feeding; having your baby fully supported while you doze allows you to get some needed rest.

Breast-feeding in public

To feed your baby on demand, it is inevitable that you will need to breast-feed in public on occasion. It may help to think ahead about strategies that would help make these feedings comfortable for you.

• Look for a private or semiprivate area, such as a fitting room or a quiet corner in a lobby.
• Wear a loose-fitting blouse or a shirt that can be raised easily (a loose T-shirt or sweater works fine). If you are wearing a top with buttons, unbutton it from the bottom up and leave the top buttons closed. You can wear a top that is specially designed for breast-feeding, but it is not necessary.
• For added privacy, lay a lightweight blanket over your shoulder and chest to cover your breasts and the baby.

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Nutritional content in Infant fomula

Besides breast milk, infant formula is the only other infant milk which the medical community considers nutritionally acceptable for infants under the age of one year. Cow's milk is not recommended because of its high protein and electrolyte (salt) content which may put a strain on an infant's immature kidneys. Evaporated milk, although perhaps easier to digest due to the processing of the protein, is still nutritionally inadequate.



Most of the world's supply of infant formula is produced in the United States. The nutrient content is regulated by the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) based on recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition. The following must be included in all formulas produced in the U.S.:

* Protein
* Fat
* Linoleic acid
* Vitamins: A, C, D, E, K, thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), B6, B12
* Niacin
* Folic acid
* Pantothenic acid
* Calcium
* Metals: magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, copper
* Phosphorus
* Iodine
* Sodium chloride
* Potassium chloride

In addition, formulas not made with cow's milk must include:

* Biotin
* Choline
* Inositol


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What is Baby colic ?

Infant colic (also known as baby colic and three month colic) is a condition in which an otherwise healthy baby cries or screams frequently and for extended periods, without any discernible reason.

The condition typically appears within the first two weeks of life and almost invariably disappears, often very suddenly, before the baby is three to four months old . It is more common in bottle-fed babies, but also occurs in breast-fed infants. The crying frequently occurs during a specific period of the day, often in the early evening.

Since the cause is not conclusively established (see below) and the amount of crying differs between babies, there is no general consensus on the definition of "colic". Having ruled out other causes of crying, a common rule of thumb is to consider a baby "colicky" if it cries intensely more than three days a week, for more than three hours, for more than three weeks in a month.

please concentration this is one cause of babies crying.

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Mama and papa in Your language

In linguistics, mama and papa refers to the sequences of sounds /ma/, /mama/ and similar ones are known to correspond to the word for "mother" and "father" in many languages of the world, often completely unrelated among themselves.
Apart from Italian mamma, Romanian mama and Spanish mamá, English has words such as mama/momma and mum/mom, which tend to use open vowels such as [ɑ] and [ɐ]. In Dutch too, mama and papa are the most common terms with which a child addresses his parents. Mama and papa also occur in Interlingua, as a result of their widespread international use. Mamma may also be used, and in fact this word predates mama. Italian, Romanian and Spanish come from a Latin base, tracing the words mater and pater from Latin. Latin, Sanskrit and English come from wider group of Indo-European languages. The modern language of Hindi, has the word mātā for mother. Dravidian languages like Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Tulu have the words amma and appa.

In Mandarin Chinese, which is completely unrelated to the above, the word for mother is ma, mama, mu (literally) and niang. For Father is ba, baba, fu (literally) or die (Pronounced as Diye) .Ma is also the word for "mother" in Kutenai, a language isolate of southeastern British Columbia. In Japanese, the basic word for mother which does not combine with honorifics is haha, which apparently derives from Old Japanese *papa (modern Japanese /h/ is often derived from old /p/ through an intermediate stage, probably the bilabial fricative [ɸ]). Japanese has also borrowed informal mama and papa along with the native terms. In Thai, "mother" is me3e (long e with glottalized high-low falling tone), and "father" is pho3o (with aspirated /pʰ/). In Tagalog, an Austronesian language, mothers can be called nánay or ináy (diminutives of iná "mother"), and dads tátay (by contrast, not related to amá "father"). Owing to contact with Spanish and English, mamá, papá, ma(m(i)), and dad [dʌd] or dádi are also used. In Russian the words mama, papa, deda and baba mean "mother", "father", "grandfather" and "grandmother" respectively, though the last two can represent baby-talk (baba also means "strong woman"). Georgian is notable for having its similar words "backwards" from many other languages: "father" is მამა mama, while "mother" is დედა deda.
The cause for this curious crosslinguistic phenomenon is believed to be the easiness of pronunciation of the sounds involved. Studies have shown that children learning to speak master the open vowel sound [a] and the labial consonants . Almost no languages lack labial consonants, and no language lacks an open vowel like .

The Tagalog -na-/-ta- mom/dad words parallel the more common ma/pa in nasality/orality of the consonants and identity of place of articulation. However, there is nothing of motherhood or fatherhood inherent in the sounds. The basic kinship terms mama and papa comprise a special case of false cognates (cf. !Kung ba, Chinese bàba, Persian baba, and French papa (all "dad"); or Navajo má, Chinese māma, Swahili mama, Quechua mama, and English "mama"). The striking cross-linguistical similarities between these terms are thought to result from the nature of language acquisition (Jakobson 1962). According to Jakobson, these words are the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies; and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves. Thus, there is no need to ascribe the similarities to common ancestry.

This hypothesis is supported by the fact that these terms are built up from speech sounds that are easiest to produce (bilabial stops like m and b and the basic vowel a). However, variants do occur; for example, in Fijian, the word for "mother" is nana, and in Old Japanese, the word for "mother" was papa (the modern word haha "mother" is the descendant of the older word). Furthermore, the modern Japanese word for "father," chichi, is from older titi. In fact, in Japanese the child's initial mamma is interpreted to mean "food".
It is also worth noting that in some dialects of Spanish, papa is baby-talk for "food", and buba or pupa mean "hurt" (compare English boo-boo), which are two of the concepts that babies first learn to convey to their parents. Following the same idea, consider also English poo and pee, not to speak of baby itself (Spanish bebé), all of them showing a simple syllabic structure and bilabial consonants.

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