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?
This WIC program offers pregnant and postpartum mothers breastfeeding support.
What is Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program?
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 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?
These are some of the grow spurt signs
What are Fussiness, Sleeping more/less, more frequent/ longer feeding demands.
Duration of WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counseling services
What are from Prenatal to 1 year postpartum?
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)
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?
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?
These immune components in breastmilk help babies fight off infection.
What are antibodies?
An infant sleep pattern when babies has rapid eye movement when eyes are closed, rapid breathing and occasional body movements.
What is Active sleep?
Name of the room designated for breastfeeding at Well Child Center (Wing Street).
What is The Mothers' Room?