Is it so? T/F
You should expect breastfeeding to hurt.
What is false?
Breastfeeding should not hurt.
This group receives the largest food package on the WIC program.
What are breastfeeding mothers and babies?
Exclusive.
These immune components in breastmilk help babies fight off infection.
What are antibodies?
Formula is just as good (or better than) breastmilk
What is false?
Breast milk is a living substance that changes to meet our baby's needs on any given day, formula cannot. Though formula has it's place, it will never be "just as good" or "better".
Mothers going back to work or school can receive what from WIC, if they meet certain criteria.
What is a breast pump?
This early milk is made during pregnancy and the first 3-5 days after birth.
What is colostrum?
This is the best way to make more milk.
What is nurse more often? Frequent feedings at the breast encourage mom's body to make more milk for her growing baby.
Newborns should eat this many times per day.
What is 10-12? Frequent feedings are necessary for babies to grow adequately, to slowly stretch their stomachs, and to increase mom's milk supply.
Breastfed babies are healthier.
What is true?
Breastfeeding can reduce a baby's chance of common childhood illnesses, such as the common cold.
This person is a mother like me and can provide me basic breastfeeding support and education.
What is a breastfeeding peer counselor?
When babies are nursing well, getting milk, and not hurting mom they probably have a good ______.
What is "latch"? "Latch" is what we call how baby's mouth fits on mom's breast. Babies latch on with wide mouths and take in a lot of mom's nipple and areola. A "good" latch is when baby is effectively drinking milk (listen for swallowing, jaw movement, chin buried in breast, lips turned out or not visible) and mom is comfortable (baby's latch is taking in much of her breast and not rubbing or pinching).
A baby should gain this many ounces per week in the first 2 months of life.
What is 4-6 ounces per week?
Mothers with breasts too large, too small, or with flat or inverted nipples will not be able to breastfeed.
What is false?
The size of your breast does not dictate the outcome of breastfeeding. Flat or inverted nipples can be overcome with proper support and education.
WIC offers these sessions for mothers to learn about breastfeeding.
What is a breastfeeding class?
Breastmilk has this many components: dozens, hundreds, or thousands.
What is thousands? Breastmilk has thousands of components in it, some of which science cannot even identify, more or less replicate and put in a can. Artificial Baby Milks have recently started adding DHA and ARA to try to be “more like breastmilk” but the only thing REALLY like breastmilk is the REAL thing.
Giving bottles and pacifiers early in a baby's life may (HELP) or (HARM) the breastfeeding relationship. (Pick one)
What is harm? Because these nipples are shaped differently and work differently, the baby learns to suck differently on them. The amount of time a baby spends sucking on an artificial nipple also cuts down on the amount of time the baby is at the breast, and may reduce mom's milk supply.
Mothers and babies can breastfeed in public.
What is true?
FL. Statue 383.015 states "A mother may breastfeed her baby in any location, public or private, where the mother is otherwise authorized to be, irrespective of whether the nipple of the mother’s breast is uncovered during or incidental to the breastfeeding."
A phone number you can call for breastfeeding support 24/7?
What is the breastfeeding warmline?
(386)937-6405
The correct amount of time for a baby to eat is: for 10 minutes on either breast; for 30 minutes split between both breasts; for 30 minutes on only one breast; or any of the above.
What is any of the above? A newborn should nurse for at least ten minutes per feeding, but that may be from both breasts, from one breast only, and the baby may feed longer from one or either breast.
Babies may breastfeed for this long in their life.
What is as long as both mother and child want to? The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and breastfeeding at least a year. The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for at least TWO years. Neither recommends the use of formula except when it is medically necessary.