Breastfeeding Facts
Breastfeeding Counselling Skills
Breastfeeding Potpourri
Breastfeeding Challenges
Breastfeeding Hodgepodge
100

This organisation recommends that newborns should be fed nothing but breastmilk


What is the World Health Organisation (WHO) and American Academy of Pediatrics?

The WHO and AAP recommend exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, followed by breastfeeding in combination with the introduction of complementary foods up to 2 years or beyond

100

Your baby can get your breastmilk more easily if he takes a big mouthful of breast


What is using simple language?


100

Black stool in diaper on Day 1

What is meconium?

100

My nipples are sore and very painful when baby feeds

What is a poor latch?

100

Newborns should eat this many times per day.

What is at least 8 - 12 times in 24 hours?

200

The hormone responsible for milk ejection and uterine contractions.

What is oxytocin?



200

Are you having any breastfeeding challenges?

What is a closed question?

200

Following birth the best practice to promote bonding and breastfeeding

What is skin to skin?

200

My nipples were sore and I gave my baby a bottle...now he's having problems latching 

What is nipple confusion?

200

Around 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months old a baby may wake more often and need to be fed more often. This is often attributed to this process going on in the baby.

What is a growth spurt? 

Growth spurts sometimes cause moms to think they are losing their milk supply-- 

Explain why?

300

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?

300

Smiling and nodding when speaking to a mother

What is using helpful non-verbal communication?

300

Free samples of formula given to mother when leaving hospital

What is violating the Code?

(The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes)

300

A painful small white spot on tip of nipple.



What is a nipple bleb?

300

Breastmilk helps your baby get ready for solid foods and may keep him or her from being a picky eater because it does this.

What is expose your baby to the tastes of the foods you eat?

400

Stop or slowing suckling, relaxing hands and arms, and falling asleep at the breast can be signs of

What is end of a feeding?

400

You are not holding baby properly

What is using judging words?

400

Usually, the most helpful position for a newborn

What is the cross-cradle hold?

400

My breasts are hard and my nipples are now flat and baby cannot  latch on

What is engorgement?

400


A baby's stomach is the size of this object when they are born.

What is a shooter marble? 

Explain size:

 At 3 days  

At 10 days


500

Sebaceous (oil) glands around the nipple that become more pronounced during pregnancy.

What are Montgomery glands?



500

Your friend says that you should eat every time before breastfeeding the baby?

What is reflecting back what the mother says?

500

Mother supports breast with palm of hand and 3 outer fingers support baby's chin and cheeks 

What is the dancer hand position or hold? 

500

Feeling ill, fever of 101oF or greater, painful tender swollen breast with reddish, sensitive area

What is mastitis?

500

When the breast is full of milk there is a whey protein in the milk that tells your body to do this.

What is slow down the production of milk? 

This protein is called Feedback Inhibitor of Lactation (FIL).  



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