Use this outline to guide your study and reading. You should know the concepts outlined. Tip: Write down or type up your understanding of everything outlined for your own records.
Objectives:
- Understand breast anatomy and how the body makes breast milk
- List breastfeeding challenges and strategies to manage them
- Specify benefits of exclusive breastfeeding first six months
Study
Book – Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn 2016 edition
- Chapter 19, “Feeding Your Baby”, p 388
- Chapter 20, “When Breastfeeding Becomes Challenging”, 420
Resources
A. Understanding Breastfeeding
- Benefits
- Concerns
- Breast anatomy
- Montgomery glands
- Colostrum
- How breast milk is made
B. Composition of Breast Milk
- Nonnutritive qualities
- Water
- Fats
- Carbohydrates
- Proteins
- Vitamins and minerals
C. Breastfeeding Basics
- Breastfeed soon after birth
- Keep baby skin to skin
- Breast crawl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2blj4iRWHk
- Football hold
- Cradle hold
- Cross cradle hold
- Lying down position
- Choose or change position for comfort
- First day challenges
- Latch
D. When to Feed Baby
- Baby roots
- Hands in mouth
- Mouth/tongue movements
- Groggy not deeply asleep
E. Feeding Patterns
- Feeding pattern first days
- Feeding pattern first weeks
- Feeding pattern first months
- Knowing baby is getting enough breastmilk
F. Nursing Concerns
- Breast fullness/engorgement
- Sore nipples
- Infection
- Leaking
- Plugged ducts
- Mastitis
G. Expressing Milk
- Hand expression
- Pumping
- Storing breastmilk
- Heating breastmilk
- Using a bottle
H. Breastfeeding Challenges
- Cesarean birth
- Premature baby
- Pregnancy
- Tandem nursing
- Breastfeeding multiples
- Breastfeeding while ill
- Breastfeeding taking medications
I. Other Breastfeeding Concerns
- Six months exclusive breastfeeding recommended
- Nutrition while breastfeeding
- Working and breastfeeding
- Going to school and breastfeeding
- Relactation
- Breastfeeding and fertility
- Nursing past one (read Fact Sheet)
- Weaning
Assignment
Next Study Module #10 Newborns