Getting Started With Breast Feeding

Once you hold your baby for the first time in the delivery room, you must set his lips to your breast. Although your mature milk have not developed yet, your breasts are still making a substance known as colostrum that helps to guard our baby from infections.




If your baby has difficulties finding or being on your nipple, you should not freak out. Breast feeding is an art that will need plenty of patience and plenty of practice. No one expects you to be an
expert when you initially start, which means you shouldn't hesitate to ask for advice or have a nurse show you what you need to do.

Once you start, keep in mind that nursing shouldn't be painful. When your baby latches on, pay attention to how your breasts feel. If the latching on hurts, break the suction then try again.

You should nurse quite frequently, as the more you nurse the more quickly your mature milk will come in and the more milk you'll produce. Breast feeding for 10 - 15 minutes per breast 8 - 10 times
every 24 hours is an ideal target. Crying is a sign of hunger, which means you should actually feed your baby before he starts crying.

Throughout the first few days, you may want to awaken your baby to start breast feeding, and he may end up drifting off to sleep during feeding. To ensure that your baby is eating often enough, you should wake him up if it may be 4 hours since the last time he's been fed.

Getting comfortable

Feedings will take 40 minutes or longer, therefore you will need a comfortable area. You don't wish to be relaxing somewhere where you will be bothered, as it can make the process very hard.

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