Lactation, prepared before giving birth

There are few months to childbirth but already think allatterai breastfeeding your baby? Do not delay, start to prepare! How? Reading the advice of the expert, will be useful when you go to the hospital to give birth. Why were the early days with the baby are really valuable for the success of breastfeeding.

The advice and information on how to prepare for breastfeeding have been developed with the help Paola Paschetto professional counselor Lactation (IBCLC, International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners ).

Ask the hospital if they practice rooming in. Rooming-in means that the child is left in the room with her ​​mother for the duration of hospital stay. Now more and more widespread, but not all hospitals are able to guarantee it, often for organizational reasons, and so the child spends most of the day in the nursery and is brought to the mother only at scheduled times for feedings. Here's a list of the Baby-Friendly Hospitals.

The child must be able to attach to the breast when he wants to. Especially in the first days of life, and then when it is still in the hospital, the child must be able to attach to the breast as often as you want and not on a schedule. In the early days, in fact, the baby is also 10-12 feedings during the day, either by hunger, thirst for you, you just want to be comforted by the mother's womb. Establish strict schedules for feedings not only meets the needs of the child, but does not stimulate milk production.

If it is not practiced rooming-in and the baby is in the nursery between feedings and the other to appease its eventual crying probably be given small amounts of formula or glucose solution. Already in the hospital, you have to give additions, infant formula or other liquids, unless absolutely necessary. For the success of exclusive breastfeeding, it is important not to give the baby other additions, for two main reasons:

• only if it is attached to the breast, the child learns the correct rules of sucking and it is not distracted from teats or pacifiers, involving a technique of sucking different and are likely to 'confuse';
• the more the baby attaches to the breast, the more it stimulates the production of milk, it is shown that the arrival of the milk supply can also anticipate 12-24 hours if there are no 'distractions' external. If the dates are added at the moment of feeding the baby will have less hunger and less stimulate milk production.

True and false start on techniques for childbirth

Do the cleaning of the house, drinking castor oil, go up and down the stairs, take a nice hot bath or to wait for the full moon: the end of pregnancy expectant mothers feel give an infinite number of tips to make start contractions. Which have their foundation? Which ones are just rumors? Find out now.

The end of pregnancy is approaching and the belly starts to become a bit 'too cumbersome. 's that it makes you think there will be some method to speed up and facilitate the delivery? Let's see what's founded with the help of Mary Vicario, Coordinator of Technical and practical teaching and Internship Bachelor of Science in Midwifery at the Second University of Naples.

"On this issue the rumors do not count" begins the midwife: "some derive from tradition, others are spread by word of mouth, but only a few have a scientific foundation. In any case it is a must start by saying that any technique could be adopted only if the pregnancy comes to an end, and that is if it's been 41settimane and 3 days.

Not for nothing, according to national guidelines, before this age should not be adopted any procedure except at the specific clinical indication. It is true that pregnancy is considered completed as early as the fulfillment of the 37th week, but it may be that the baby is still in need of a few weeks and we can not be the ones to drive the program or our labor, the launch of which is determined by a perfect balance of hormones."In other words: when the fruit is ripe, it falls by itself and there is no need to remove it from the branch still immature. But when it is ripe, we can give a 'help'?