What Heath Worker Should Know

What Every Health Worker Should Know About Breastfeeding and Rooming-In?

What are the benefits of breastfeeding?

What are the benefits of breastfeeding?

 Ideal  Has

and complete food for babies

anti-bodies against many diseases

 Foster  Helps

bonding

prevent post-delivery hemorrhage

 Protects

mother against breast cancer

What are the policies or procedures that can help promote breastfeeding in hospital maternity wards?

What are the policies or procedures that can help promote breastfeeding in hospital maternity wards?



Early breastfeeding



24 hour rooming-in





No bottles, dummies or pacifiers



Helping mothers to attach babies



Build mother’s selfconfidence

Demand feeding

What are the importance of rooming-in?

What are the importance of rooming-in?

 Facilitates  Permits  Closer

family

bonding

breastfeeding on demand

contact with the father and

What are the importance of on demand feeding?

What are the importance of on demand feeding?

Helps

produce more milk Prevents breast engorgement

What is the major cause of sore nipple?

What is the major cause of sore nipple?



Wrong attachment

What

is the most common cause of insufficient milk?

Not feeding frequently

What

is the most common cause of breast engorgement?

• Infrequent suckling or ineffective suckling

How

does prelacteal feeding interfere with breastfeeding?

How does prelacteal feeding interfere with breastfeeding?

 Decrease

eagerness to breastfeed

 May  Give

produce allergy reactions

mothers’ a sense of inadequacy

What are the key points on the proper technique on milk expression?

Key Points on the Proper Technique of Milk Expression 

Thumb on areola above the nipple and forefinger on the areola below the nipple

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Finger opposite, press inwards towards chest wall

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Do not slide finger on skin

Key Points on the Proper Technique of Milk Expression



Repeat pressrelease for several minutes to stimulate milk ejection reflex

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Rotate around nipple to compress all sinuses

Proper

Breastfeeding position

 Tummy  Eye

to tummy

contact

 Chin

touching the breast

What Health Workers Can Do?  Remove

posters that advertise formula or baby cereal

 Refuse

to accept free gifts or supplies of formula

 Refuse

to allow free samples, gifts or leaflets to be given to mothers.

What Health Workers Can Do?  Eliminate

teaching of formula use to every mother

 Identify

commercial promotion of products that interfere with breastfeeding

 Show

employers how to support breastfeeding

What Health Workers Can Do?

 Promote

breastfeeding through the news media

 Put

breastfeeding posters and pamphlets in public places

 Educate

school children

Can you now be interviewed by the MBFHI Assessors ?

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