After birth, the baby
should be cleansed and taken to the mother's lap and allowed to suck her
breasts as soon as possible. This will hasten the supply of milk into mother's
breasts, increase its emission through them and as such, the flow of milk will
become continuous. From then on, the following rules are needed to be followed
during breast feeding.
● The mother should drink a glass of water before breast feeding her
child and be mentally ready.
● Both of the breasts are needed to be cleansed each time before
breast feeding.
● The psychology of the mother is an important factor during breast
feeding. Hence, she should start breast feeding the child with a favourable
intentional set up as well as with a quiet mentality.
● She should breast feed her child in a calm and peaceful
environment as well as in a position full of love and affection for the child.
● When the child completes its taking milk up to its satisfaction,
it will stop sucking the breasts by itself. At this stage, the child should not
be disturbed but should be allowed to lie quietly on the bed.
● Both the breasts should be used alternatively during each breast
feeding.
● The mother should never breast feed the child in a lying position.
The mothers breast may block the child's nostrils and the milk enter inside
them as well.
● It is not wise to breast feed the child each time it cries. The
child may cry for a number of reasons. Hence, the reason why the child cries
needs to be ascertained first before breast-feeding.
Often milk from other
sources (bottle feeding) is needed to be given to a child instead of mother's
milk. Circumstances which might lead to such alternative feedings can be as
follows : (i) when the mother is seriously ill, (ii) when the secretion of milk
from the mother's breasts becomes insufficient, (iii) when working mothers need
to go out of the house frequently. Such milk from various sources may be of
different kinds; for example tinned powder milk, cow's milk or buffalo's milk.
Such kinds of milk can be fed to the child through bottle feeders or spoons and
cups. During the early stages, many mothers prefer bottle feeding. But
according to modern science, it is better to habituate the child in spoon and
cup feeding rather than in bottle feeding for a long period. In whichever way
the child is fed, one has to keep various items for preparing milk in a neat
and clean way.
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