Breast-feeding

Breast-feeding: Pumping and maintaining your milk supply
Pumping milk while you're away from your baby can help you continue breast-feeding for as long as possible. Here's help maintaining your milk supply when you're pumping.
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Breast-feeding mothers - self-care
Definition:
Breastfeeding is often an enjoyable and rewarding experience for mothers. A breastfeeding mother must continue to take care of her baby and herself, as she did during her pregnancy.
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Breast-feeding (nursing) your baby can be a comfortable and relaxing experience, though nipple soreness should be expected, especially during the first weeks of breast-feeding.
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Breast-feeding mothers must be particularly careful when their babies are being treated for thrush.
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Breast-feeding of allergic infants.
A report from the Department of Pediatrics, University of Turku, Finland studied 100 infants who had atopic eczema.
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Breast-feeding is good for mom and baby. Although there are important health benefits for both, one of the most spent together is the special bonding that develops between mom and her new baby as they get to know each other.
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Breast-feeding can be an effective means of birth control in the first 6 months after giving birth if specific guidelines, such as breast-feeding your baby every feeding, are strictly followed. This is called the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM).
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BREAST-FEEDING; INFANT FEEDING (Lactation; Nursing)
TOPIC"Helpful suggestions on nursing your child. Try to nurse him for 9 months, if at all possible.
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If you are breast-feeding your baby, do not use birth control pills unless your health care provider says it is OK.
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Breastfeeding: Common Breast-Feeding Difficulties Fixable
Breast-Feeding May Lower Mom's Risk of Diabetes
Breast-Feeding Eases Baby's Pain During Tests
Bottle-Feeding May Not Raise Child Obesity Risk ...
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Girls and women who are pregnant or breast-feeding, or who plan to get pregnant, should eat no more than two portions of oily fish a week.
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Question: I recently saw an episode of "Chicago Hope" on TV and a baby died of dehydration because the mother was breast-feeding and was afraid to use formula as a supplement to her inadequate supply of breast milk. Is this a common problem?
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Progestin-only oral contraceptives are safe for use by breast-feeding mothers. If you are fully breastfeeding (not giving your baby any food or formula), you may start taking this medication 6 weeks after delivery.
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Any medication use must be carefully considered if the woman are breast-feeding, but with some medications, continuing breast-feeding is safe.
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Are you pregnant?
Are you breast-feeding?
What type of drainage is there?
Does it look like milk (even though you are not breast-feeding)?
Does it look bloody?
Does it look like pus?
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SUZANNE LaJOIE, MD: If a woman is breast-feeding, I won't put her on a method that contains estrogen. I'll use either a progesterone-only pill, a progesterone-only injectable or an IUD.
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This type of abscess is most likely to develop in women who are breast-feeding a new baby, especially if they have cracked nipples. The abscess needs to be opened (incised or cut) and the pus drained.
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Staphylococcus is the most common organism. This breast infection is seen most commonly in the immediate postpartum period (during breast-feeding). Treatment includes warm wet compresses to the site and oral antibiotics.
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"These findings don't surprise me," said Dr. Ruth Lawrence, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and a member of the executive committee section on breast-feeding of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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It seems to be especially true for infants who are breast-feeding. Often this causes lots of concern for the new mother. But after the first 24 hours, most babies become more alert and are more interested in nursing.
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After your periods end, your body stops making the female hormone estrogen (ES-truh-jun). Estrogen controls how your body matures, your monthly periods, and body changes during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
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that infects T-cells (a type of white blood cell) and can cause leukemia and lymphoma. HTLV-1 is spread by sharing syringes or needles used to inject drugs, through sexual contact, and from mother to child at birth or through breast-feeding.
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Children can contract HIV from their infected mothers either during pregnancy or birth, or postnatally, through breast-feeding.
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