Benefits of Breastfeeding
The only complete food that provides all the nutrients a baby needs for optimum growth, exclusively for the first 6 months and with the addition of complementary foods for at least the first 2 years of a child's life.
What is breastmilk?
What is bottle feeding?
The ring of pigemented skin surrounding the nipple
What is the areola?
This common problem is usually encountered in the first few days or weeks of breastfeeding, and can be caused by poor positioning and attachment.
What are sore nipples?
Name two organizations that provide free mother-to-mother support in the form of meetings/in person help and online/phone/email help. And provide breastfeeding education and promotion.
What is Breastfeeding USA and La Leche League?
These are generally a lot less stinky in breastfed babies, than in those who are formula fed.
What are baby's poopy diapers/dirty diapers?
A piece of equipment that many mothers use when they go back to work to aid in continued breastfeeding.
What is a breast pump?
An uncomfortable condition caused by not nursing or pumping frequently enough.
What is engorgement?
A painful, hard lump on the breast that is treated with warm compresses, massage, and nursing.
What is a plugged duct?
An annual, week-long celebration of breastfeeding during August.
What is World Breastfeeding Week?
A sticky yellow fluid full of antibodies and immunoglobulins that has been called a baby's first immunization.
What is colostrum?
Studies have shown these decrease the risk of SIDS, but too frequent use 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?
What is a lactation consultant?
Growth charts that establish the growth of breastfed babies as the norm.
What are WHO growth charts?
The chances of this devastating, unexplainable loss is 2x more likely in formula fed babies, than in those who are breastfed.
What is SIDS?
Many mothers find these are a useful aid in positioning babies at the breast. They are marketed in many different styles, colors and sizes, but are not actually necessary for successful breastfeeding.
What are breastfeeding pillows?
A condition present at birth that prevents the normal function and mobility of the tongue. It can sometimes cause problems during breastfeeding.
What is ankyloglossia/tongue tie?
What is mastitis?
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?
What are Montgomery tubercles/glands?
A term for when an older baby who had been happily nursing, suddenly refuses to nurse and seems quite unhappy about it.
What is a nursing strike?
A code established by WHO/UNICEF to prevent the inappropriate sales promotion of infant foods that can be used to replace breastmilk. The code, among other things, requires no advertising of breastmilk substituates to families and forbids health care systems from accepting free formula samples.
What is the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes?