It is easy to see why breast milk is the best possible start for your baby. After all it was designed by Mother Nature to contain everything your baby will need to thrive for the first six months, and it is also the perfect complement to first foods for the first year and beyond.
As well as breast milk being free, convenient, sterile and always at the right temperature, breastfeeding brings many health benefits for both mum and baby.
Here are just a few:
- It is easy for your baby to digest.
- It is packed full of antibodies that help protect against infections.
- Breast fed babies are less likely to develop asthma and eczema.
- Women who breastfeed are less likely to develop ovarian and breast cancers and osteoporosis.
- Breastfeeding uses up about an extra 800cals a day so it can help reduced some of the weight put on in pregnancy.
Breastfeeding sometimes is not as easy as nature intended. It's a skill that can take a bit of time to learn, but don't be afraid to ask for help and advice from your midwife, health visitor or breastfeeding counsellor if you are worried. Just relax and stick with it, and in no time at all you will be enjoying one of the best kinds of job satisfaction there is.
Many mothers today have very busy lives and helping them continue to breastfeed for as long as possible is very important. It may help you to maintain breastfeeding by expressing your milk from time to time, and storing to feed from a bottle when you can't be there to feed your baby. This could allow you to return to work or have a night out from time to time.
The Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature range is a breastfeeding support system that can help mothers breastfeed for longer by helping baby to move between breast and bottle - and back again - effortlessly.
Bottle feeding
There is no getting away from the fact that breastfeeding is best for babies, and many health care professionals will advise mums to have a go. However many mums may wish to introduce some form of bottle feeding for their babies, whether it's to give expressed breast milk, a combination of both breast milk and formula milk or just formula milk on its own.
Bottle feeding can allow another family member to get involved in the feeding of the baby, although there are many other things that they can get involved in, like bathing. You may also to choose to bottle feed if you are returning to work, and the baby will be cared for by someone else.
The Tommee Tippee Closer to Nature teat has been designed to mimic the natural flex, feel and movement of a mum's breast, helping baby move between breast and bottle effortlessly.
So, when it comes to baby feeding, Tommee Tippee has the products to help you, whatever choice you make.
Breastfeeding And Bottle Feeding
Proper bottle feeding kicks off with clean baby bottles. Life after birth for the infant depends on the feeding process. The best bottle feeding advice you could ever get from experts is ensuring the use of clean baby bottles. Cleanliness is enhancing life. Cleaning is removing milk residue on the bottles. Rinse off bottles with hot water to stop milk residue from caking and prevent it from creating a foul smell inside. Sterilize the bottles after washing. This way, bacteria and other disease-causing elements will die off with the heat.
Here are more of the bottle feeding tips you can follow to be able to feed your child the right way. Consider the following before and during feeding:
1.Nipples ? Nipples are supposed to have the right holes. Too large holes may result to leakage and choking while too small ones may cause sucking difficulty for babies. Have spare or extra nipples kept inside a sealed bottle for cases of wearing and tearing of the old ones. In cases where nipples have small holes, try to sterilize a needle and widen the holes for increased flow.
2.Warm milk ? Heat milk before giving it to the infant. Just have the bottle with milk stand in warm water. Refrain from having it heated in a microwave to avoid hotspot that might burn your baby's mouth.
3.Fridge ? Store milk prepared in advance in the fridge and not on the door. The fridge doors do not have a stable temperature that might cause the spoiling of the milk. Remember, milk prepared in advance should only be kept in the fridge for 24 hours. If bottled milk is taken out of the fridge, its life span would only take three hours long. On the other hand, if a baby started feeding on a bottle yet was not able to finish it all up, make sure you don't feed the left over after an hour because the baby's saliva has already contaminated it.
4.Clean Hands ? Make sure your hands are sanitized before touching any feeding supply.
5.Boiled Water ? Prepare the infant formula with boiled water is tolerable by the hand. Remember further not to use repeatedly the boiled water.
6.Travel ? When traveling, make sure bottles are kept in an insulated box only for eight hours. Never carry with you warm feed because it acts as breeding ground for bacteria. Take with you a thermos with hot water instead.
These are just a few of the many useful bottle feeding advice you can follow when feeding your baby. There are a lot more especially when talking about feeding positions and strategy. For instance, bottles should be tilted to be able to inhibit too much air from entering your baby's mouth. Also, you have to keep the baby's head straight while feeding. Head tilted back or sideways cause difficulty in swallowing.
These bottle feeding tips will be of great aid for you to create a great feeding experience for your baby. Mothers may always wish for the baby to finish the whole bottle content even babies are already full. Babies know when to stop. Mothers also should.
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