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The first weeks HINTS FOR BREASTFEEDING After the birth, hold your baby in skin-to-skin contact for as long as you both wish. ● ● ● ● ● ● Feed your baby as often and as long as he or she needs. Check your baby is well positioned and attached for feeding. Avoid using dummies or formula while breastfeeding as these can confuse your baby and reduce your milk supply. Keep your baby in the same room as you day and night. Eat and drink when you feel hungry or thirsty and try to eat a wide variety of foods (see page 10). Avoid drinking too much strong tea or coffee. Different kinds of breast milk For the first few days after birth, your breasts produce a special food called ‘colostrum’, which looks like rich creamy milk and is sometimes quite yellow in colour. This contains all the food your baby needs. This also contains antibodies, which pass on to your baby your own resistance to infections. The change from colostrum to milk begins on about the third day, and is known as ‘transitional milk’. It becomes ‘full’ breast milk after two weeks. Don’t worry if the milk looks very thin or appears blue-white in colour – this is normal. The make-up of the milk also gradually changes throughout the course of the feed. The first milk which your baby takes flows quickly, is thirst-quenching and means your baby gets a drink at the start of every feed. As the flow slows HOW TO BREASTFEED down during a feed, the amount of fat in your milk increases. How your baby feeds If your baby is positioned and attached correctly, it will feel comfortable and your baby will feed easily. Your baby needs to be able to compress the dark area around your nipple (the areola) to receive milk. The breasts are never empty, but the milk is ‘let down’ so that it can gather behind the nipple and areola. When a baby sucks on just the nipple, he or she doesn’t get much milk and it feels painful. The following step-by-step guide to breastfeeding will help you learn how to hold your baby and how to help your baby attach well. Sometimes it can take time for both you and your baby to learn this skill. 1 Start by holding your baby close to you. Turn your baby’s head and body towards you in a line, not twisted. Support your baby behind the neck and shoulders and avoid holding the baby’s head. 8
The first weeks 2 Be patient… Start with your baby’s nose opposite your nipple. Allow your baby’s head to tilt back. ‘I was quite tense at first. I worried whether I was doing it right, and whether I was giving her enough, and I was feeling a bit weepy anyway. You need to find somebody to help and give you confidence. Maybe I was lucky, but my midwife was fantastic. And once I’d got her help, I just relaxed about the whole thing.’ 3 Move your baby’s mouth gently across your nipple until your baby’s mouth opens really wide. Then bring your baby towards your breast quickly. Your baby’s bottom lip and chin should touch your breast first. 4 When your baby is attached, your baby’s chin is in close contact with your breast. Your baby is able to breathe easily. You can feel your baby has a big mouthful of breast. ● ● ● ● ● SIGNS THAT YOUR BABY IS WELL ATTACHED Baby’s chin touching the breast Baby’s mouth wide open Baby’s cheeks full, not sucked in Baby’s sucking changes from short sucks to longer deeper sucks with pauses Your areola (darker area around nipple) is visible above baby’s lip ● No smacking or slurping noises will be heard while feeding. When your baby is well positioned and attached, breastfeeding feels comfortable. Your baby is relaxed. You can hear a soft swallowing. If it does not feel right … start again. Slide one of your fingers into your baby’s mouth, gently break the suction and try again. 9
Page 1 and 2: Birth five to This book gives you a
Page 3 and 4: Birth five to Your complete guide t
Page 5 and 6: 1 The first weeks There’s somethi
Page 7 and 8: The first weeks SCREENING AT A GLAN
Page 9: The first weeks B REASTFEEDING Brea
Page 13 and 14: The first weeks Allow your baby to
Page 15 and 16: The first weeks USING BREAST PUMPS
Page 17 and 18: The first weeks STERILISING All the
Page 19 and 20: The first weeks Follow the manufact
Page 21 and 22: The first weeks S LEEPING Some babi
Page 23 and 24: The first weeks room is too hot.
Page 25 and 26: The first weeks If you’re finding
Page 27 and 28: The first weeks NAPPY RASH Most bab
Page 29 and 30: The first weeks WASHING AND BATHING
Page 31 and 32: The first weeks T WINS ( OR MORE) P
Page 33 and 34: YEARS MONTHS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2
Page 35 and 36: How your child will grow • Walk o
Page 37 and 38: How your child will grow BRUSHING Y
Page 39 and 40: How your child will grow HEIGHT AND
Page 41 and 42: How your child will grow You should
Page 43 and 44: 3 Learning and playing What we call
Page 45 and 46: Learning and playing I DEAS FOR PLA
Page 47 and 48: Learning and playing H OW TO MAKE S
Page 49 and 50: Learning and playing TRANSITION FRO
Page 51 and 52: Learning and playing MAKING CHILDCA
Page 53 and 54: 4 Habits and behaviour There are so
Page 55 and 56: Habits and behaviour PROBLEMS WITH
Page 57 and 58: Habits and behaviour • By twelve
Page 59 and 60: Habits and behaviour A NEW BABY IN
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Habits and behaviour • Sometimes
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Habits and behaviour time he or she
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Habits and behaviour out to buy one
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5 Feeding your child Food is one of
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Feeding your child - push the bowl
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Feeding your child ALLERGIES Babies
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sensible for adults, but not for ba
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Feeding your child • Squashes, fi
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Feeding your child FAMILY F OOD For
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Feeding your child ‘When you go s
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Feeding your child Types of vegetar
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Feeding your child • Fruit and ve
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Feeding your child F OOD SAFETY You
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Feeding your child • If your chil
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6 Illness and accidents Every child
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Illness and accidents ● ● out-o
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Illness and accidents smoking or en
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Illness and accidents D IARRHOEA YO
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Illness and accidents ● ● ●
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Illness and accidents Alternative t
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Illness and accidents After these m
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Illness and accidents ILLNESS INFEC
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Illness and accidents practice nurs
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Illness and accidents swelling wher
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ecome a carrier and develop serious
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Illness and accidents ❑ ❑ ❑
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Illness and accidents ● ● ●
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Illness and accidents IF YOUR CHILD
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Illness and accidents at the knee a
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Illness and accidents THINGS STUCK
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Illness and accidents W HEN A CHILD
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Your own life P HYSICAL PROBLEMS A
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Your own life visitor about other l
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Your own life Stress also comes fro
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Your own life • Share the housewo
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Your own life • Suggest a regular
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8 Your services There is a wide ran
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Your services H OW TO CHANGE YOUR G
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make. The money cannot be taken out
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Your rights and benefits of childca
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Your rights and benefits child’s
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Your rights and benefits Anything e
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Your rights and benefits Who gets t
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Your rights and benefits HOUSING BE
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USEFUL ORGANISATIONS Some of these
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Council for Disabled Children 8 Wak
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INDEX A accidents 108-18 additives
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