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Supplementing Milk in Breastfeeding Babies

Supplementing Milk in Breastfeeding Babies

Babies often receive supplemental milk during breastfeeding, sometimes with formula and sometimes with breast milk. The introduction of supplemental milk, both, as the form of administration and its content, can affect the feeding of the infant and therefore it is very important to examine thoroughly its real need. In this article, we discuss what supplementing means, when it is needed, and the best options for administering it. What is supplementing? Supplementing means giving variable amounts of milk to a baby…

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First hours after C-section

First hours after C-section

Currently, one in five babies is born by C-section in the world, and although there is increasing knowledge about postpartum after this type of intervention, it is true that mothers may face similar difficulties, and myths may appear that could affect a good start to breastfeeding. Let’s speak about the main worries that mothers may have about the start of breastfeeding and the first hours after c-section. If I am given an anesthetic, do I have to wait to breastfeed?…

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Breastfeeding after C-section

Breastfeeding after C-section

Hospital routines in many countries still do not allow in many cases to humanize cesarean sections and make them less traumatic for the new family, which influences breastfeeding after c-section. The presence of the partner at birth by cesarean section is often not allowed, nor is it possible to maintain first contact with the skin that promotes a suitable start to breastfeeding. Mothers are transferred to recovery, where they can be a few hours without their babies. The parents may…

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Exclusive pumping

Exclusive pumping

There are multiple circumstances in which a mother decides to choose exclusive pumping instead of breastfeeding directly; this means expressing her milk either manually or mechanically and offering it to the baby in a bottle or other container. It can make it easier for you to know more about it and some situations that can occur when you consider this option. Is breastfeeding directly the same thing as giving expressed milk with a bottle? We could say that offering expressed…

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