INFANT CARE

EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING

  • Means giving a baby only Mother’s milk and no other food or drink, including water.
  • From birth to 6 month and thereafter continued for 2 years with safe and proper additional foods and liquid.

ADVANTAGES OF BREASTFEEDING–

  • BENEFITS TO THE BABY
  • BENEFITS TO THE MOTHER
  • BENEFITS TO THE FAMILY
  • BENEFITS TO THE SOCIETY

BENEFITS TO THE BABY

  • It provides complete nutritional staple to the infant
  • It is easily digested
  • It is free from contaminants
  • Breastfed babies are less prone to have diabetes, heart disease, eczema, asthma and other allergic disorders and adult-onset diseases.

BENEFITS TO THE MOTHER

  • It reduces post- delivery bleeding and anemia
  • Breastfeeding has contraceptive effect
  • Breastfeeding has protective effect against breast and ovarian cancers
  • Breastfeeding helps the mother regain her normal figure.

BENEFITS THE SOCIETY-

  • Breastfeeding is eco-friendly
  • Reduction in infant mortality
  • Breastfed babies develop to be better human resource
  • Improve productivity and economy of a country.

Mother should have eye to eye contact with the baby while breastfeeding and hold the baby close to her breast, facing it.

# BREASTFEEDING

  • Enhance emotional bond between mother and child
  • It is more than food
  • Enhance brain development
  • Visual development
  • Visual acuity

Breastfed babies have been shown to have higher intelligence quotient, language development and mathematical abilities.

# MYTHS #

# Myth1- Janam ghutti should be given at birth.

#Myth 2- Milk is not enough during the first 3 or 4 days after birth.

#Myth 3- You can’t take any medication while you’re breastfeeding.

#Myth 4- If the mother has an infection, she should stop breastfeeding.

#Myth 5– If the baby has diarrhoea or vomiting, the mother should stop breastfeeding.

#Myth 6- Breastfeeding is not possible after caesarean section birth.

#Myth 7- You can’t breastfeed if you plan to go back to work or school.

#Myth 8- It is easier to bottle feed than to breastfeed.

#Myth 9- Formula milks are almost the same as breastmilk.

#Myth 10- Breastfeed tied you down.

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