Feeding and Nutrition for Your Baby - Mount Sinai Hospital
Feeding and Nutrition for Your Baby - Mount Sinai Hospital
Feeding and Nutrition for Your Baby - Mount Sinai Hospital
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At first your baby will have only one or two feeds a day of practice breastfeeding<br />
or non-nutritive sucking. This will gradually increase as the baby gets used to the<br />
extra work of feeding. Because nipple <strong>and</strong> breast feeding requires more work,<br />
babies who have had severe respiratory problems may be slower to start <strong>and</strong><br />
slower to advance on feedings.<br />
Be<strong>for</strong>e your baby is ready to feed by breast or bottle, s/he may enjoy sucking. A<br />
pacifier may be used to encourage sucking. When the baby is being tube fed,<br />
s/he may like to suck on a pacifier dipped in breastmilk, or the breast that is<br />
empty of milk (after pumping). This is called non-nutritive sucking. Sucking on the<br />
empty breast or nuzzling the breast during tube feeding can be combined with<br />
kangaroo care (section “My <strong>Baby</strong>”, page 19). This helps the mother with milk<br />
production <strong>and</strong> readies the baby <strong>for</strong> future breastfeeding. In addition, babies stay<br />
warm while held. Regular visiting <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>ling of the baby is beneficial <strong>for</strong> milk<br />
supply <strong>and</strong> feeding success.<br />
Reprinted with permission from the University of Wisconsin<br />
2 <strong>Feeding</strong> My <strong>Baby</strong>
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