Breastfeeding benefits
This food is complete and provides all the nutrients baby needs for optimum growth. No mixing required.
What is Breastmilk?
This method of infant feeding often delivers milk at a faster rate than at the breast and can encourage over-eating.
What is bottle feeding?
The ring of pigmented skin surrounding the nipple
What is the areola?
A cue that babies show when they move their hands to the mouth.
What is Hunger Cue?
The practice of placing a infant directly onto mother’s bare chest immediately after birth
What is Skin to skin
These are less stinky in breastfed babies, than in those who are formula fed.
What are baby's poopy/dirty diapers?
This is used by many mothers when they go back to work/school, to aid the continuation of breastfeeding.
What is a Breast Pump?
An uncomfortable condition caused by not nursing or pumping frequently enough.
What is engorgement?
A movement of baby's head back and forward with an open mouth
What is rooting?
An annual, week-long celebration of breastfeeding during August.
What is World Breastfeeding Week?
The first milk mom makes, full of antibodies and immunoglobulins, its appearance is yellow and sticky and often is also called "baby's first immunization"
What is Colostrum?
Studies have shown these decrease the risk of SIDS, but too frequent or early use during the establishment of breastfeeding can delay breastfeeding sessions, affecting a mother's milk supply and baby's weight gain.
What is a pacifier?
The hormone responsible for milk ejection and uterine contractions.
What is oxytocin?
These are some of the grow spurt signs
What are Fussiness, Sleeping more/less, more frequent/ longer feeding demands.
The recommended duration of breastfeeding exclusivity
What is 6 months
The chances of this devastating, unexplainable loss is 2x more likely in formula fed babies, than in those who are breastfed.
What is SIDS?
(Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
The technique used to obtain early colostrum drops and validate a mother’s milk supply.This is done to prevent giving formula especially if not medically indicated.
What is hand expression?
Tubes inside breast, which milk travels through and out the nipple
What are milk ducts?
Stop or slowing suckling, relaxing hands and arms, and falling asleep at the breast can be signs of
What is fullness/ end of a feeding?
Hospitals that follow the 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding and have obtained a special designation by WHO and UNICEF.
What are Baby-Friendly Hospitals?
The chances of a woman developing this serious disease later in life are lower if she has spent at least a year of her life breastfeeding her own baby(s).
What is breast cancer?
A very good method for supplementing pumped milk or formula that prevents nipple confusion.
What is cup feeding/spoon feeding/ syringe feeding. (AKA alternative feeding methods)?
Sebaceous (oil) glands around the nipple that become more pronounced during pregnancy.
What are Montgomery tubercles/glands?
An infant sleep pattern when babies has rapid eye movement when eyes are closed, rapid breathing and occasional body movements.
What is Active sleep?
The ideal time in which pumping is to be initiated for a baby admitted to NICU
What is within 6 hours of delivery?