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See all in Preschooler. See all in Life as a parent. See all in Video. You might also like You might also like. When we latch baby, we want to make sure that we feel a firm and comfortable pull-tug sensation. Baby will pull milk from the milk ducts behind your areola, so baby needs a substantial amount of breast tissue in her mouth to get breast milk, remember it's called breast milk not nipple milk. Your baby pulls milk from your breast and not the tip of your nipple.
You will see baby open and close her jaw in consistent and rhythmic motion and you will see swallowing below her chin and hear a "kah" sound every sucks.
You will see your hungry baby with a tense body and stiff elbows while making tight fists as she rhythmically sucks at your breast in a consistent pull-tug rhythm. As time progresses, baby may slow or fall asleep. This may not necessarily mean that baby is done nursing or has taken enough breast milk to gain weight. When baby begins to fall asleep at the breast you can try to gently squeeze your breast to give baby a small stream of milk to help her to continue to suck, you can tickle under baby's elbow or lift up her arm, or you can compress her feet toward your body.
Once you have tried all these waking tactics along with nursing baby in just a diaper in a dimly lit room if baby appears to be sleeping or finished sucking then unlatch baby and burp her. Baby may also unlatch herself. Remember, once baby has finished the first side, you will always offer the other breast. This will protect your milk supply and ensure that baby gains weight.
She may take this second side, or she may be finished, and both are okay. Once your baby is full, she will look like she's full! She will appear relaxed, content, and possibly sleeping. While it's normal for infants to "spit up" a small amount after eating or during burping, a baby should not vomit after feeding. If your baby throws up all or most of a feeding, there could be a problem that needs medical care. If you're worried that your baby is spitting up too much, call your doctor.
When babies go through a period of rapid growth called a growth spurt , they want to eat more than usual. These can happen at any time. But in the early months, growth spurts often happen when a baby is:. During these times and whenever your baby seems extra hungry, follow your little one's hunger cues.
You may need to breastfeed more often for a while. That's a personal choice. Experts recommend that babies be breastfed exclusively without formula, water, juice, non—breast milk, or food for the first 6 months. Then, breastfeeding can continue until 12 months and beyond if it's working for you and your baby. Breastfeeding has many benefits for mom and baby both.
Studies show that breastfeeding can lessen a baby's chances of diarrhea , ear infections , and bacterial meningitis , or make symptoms less severe. Breastfeeding also may protect children from sudden infant death syndrome SIDS , diabetes , obesity , and asthma. For moms, breastfeeding burns calories and helps shrink the uterus. In fact, breastfeeding moms might return to their pre—pregnancy shape and weight quicker.
Breastfeeding also helps lower a woman's risk of diseases like:.
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