1. Place
infant/child skin-to-skin with mother immediately after birth
2. Initiate
breastfeeding within the first hour of birth.
Early
breastfeeding helps the baby learn to breastfeed while the breast is still
soft, and helps reduce your bleeding (hemorrhaging). Colostrum, the first thick yellowish milk, is good for your baby. Colostrum helps protect your baby from
illness and helps remove the first dark stool.
3. Good positioning and attachment.
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4. Exclusively
breastfeed (give no other food or drink not even water) from zero (0) up to six
(6) months.
It’s
scientifically and evidentially proven that the breast milk is nutritionally
adequate to meet the nutritional needs of your baby for six (6) months.
5. Breastfeed frequently, day and night.
Breastfeed
frequently to help your breast milk ‘come in’ and to ensure plenty of breast
milk flow.
6. Breastfeed on demand every time the baby demands/wants to
breastfeed.
7. Let the infant finish one breast and come off by him/her (self)
before switching to the other breast.
8. Continue breastfeeding till the child is two (2) years of age or even
longer.
9. Continue breastfeeding when infant/baby or mother is ill.
10. Mother needs to optimally eat and
drink to satisfy her hunger and thirst.
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This article was reviewed on Wednesday, 3rd August,
2016 By Nu. Sallah
Stanley Kwesi (Nutritionist at Nutritional Talk)
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