When you breastfeed, you give your baby a healthy start that lasts a lifetime.
It is the choice for feeding as breast milk is uniquely tailored to meet the health requirements of a growing baby. Breast milk is the best immunity shot your child can ever get. It also can lead to better cognitive development, as well as physical and emotional benefits due to skin-to-skin contact.
Research shows that breastfed babies have lower risks of:
- Asthma
- Ear infections
- Skin allergies
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Lower respiratory infections
- Necrotizing enterocolitis, a disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract in premature babies, or babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- Type 2 diabetes
- Leukaemia (during childhood)
- Obesity (during childhood)
By breastfeeding, mothers have a lower risk of:
- breast and ovarian cancer
- type 2 diabetes
- postpartum depression
Mothers who breastfeed have shown improved postpartum (after birth) weight loss compared to those who chose not to breastfeed.
Our lactation services include:
- Antenatal breastfeeding consultation: This is a one-on-one 45 min interactive session which will prepare moms-to-be for their breastfeeding journey and make them utmost comfortable and confident from day one of their baby’s birth. Short effective videos/presentations are demonstrated for better understanding. This consultation deals with:
- Brief breast examination
- Importance of your baby’s first golden hour
- Correct technique of giving ‘skin to skin contact’
- How to get breastfeeding started
- Different breastfeeding positions
- How to secure a good deep latch
- Understanding hunger and satiety cues of newborn
- How to know your baby is getting enough milk
- Demonstration of hand expression of breast milk
- Discussing common breastfeeding myths and facts
In addition, we also guide for antenatal colostrum harvesting for mothers who are interested after clearance from their gynaecologist. For more information on this, connect with our doctor.
2. Postnatal breastfeeding consultation: This is also one-on-one 45 min interactive session which mainly focuses on
- Direct observation of breastfeeding session
- Practical tips and tricks to help moms fine tune breastfeeding techniques
- Correction of latch issues if any
- Breastfeeding guidance in first few days and weeks
- How to build and maintain milk supply
- Food that will help in increasing milk supply
- Understanding hunger cues of newborn
- How to know your baby is getting enough milk
- Demonstration of hand expression of breast milk
- Using breast pumps/nipple shields if required
- How to deal with engorged breasts, nipple soreness and pain while breastfeeding
- Special guidance for c-sec mothers
- Breastfeeding support while returning to work