Techniques to breastfeed and give milk

The appropriate technique
In general there is no need to put lotions or creams on the nipples or areola, as these products can injure the glands of Montgomery, essential to avoid injuries or infections. In the Nordic countries, where breastfeeding is common practice for most moms, they make no preparation before delivery, just keep the breasts with bodices that are adapted to the changes. Moreover, when they can, expose their breasts to the sun so that the nipple acquire the plasticity necessary for good breastfeeding.

A good technique will help the baby to draw without difficulty:

• The demand for free food is the most convenient. The baby has to suck when you're hungry. Although it is not advisable to spend more than four hours without eating, because the decrease in blood sugar can damage it.

• At first, to stimulate lower
milk, it is best to place the baby roughly every two hours. This is important to do in the first ten or fifteen days.

• The time of each shot will vary between five and twenty minutes. At each will begin to breastfeed with last chest that was given in the previous one. It is advisable to take the two of the same amount of time, which should monitor how many minutes used in the baby food. That figure is divided by two and that's the time that you'll be offered each breast.

• If the mother fails to remove the baby from the teat, you can use your finger boy and placed in the mouth. In this way the little that will stop sucking chest and may well move to another.

• The position of the baby at the time of feeding is a factor to be reckoned with. We face the chest and must be firmly fastened and safety, always watching her mother. The common position so the baby's looking at the ceiling is ideal for taking the bottle, but not to breastfeed.

• To avoid damaging the nipple, we must not allow the baby to play with him. Moreover, it is important that you enter in your mouth not only the nipple but the areola. In this way suckle properly and draw a good volume of milk.

Preparation for childbirth - Theory and Practice

Today, all courses in preparation for childbirth or motherhood have taken the best from each of the schools for pioneers and are a part of theoretical and physical training.

In the theoretical lessons are taught about the genitals, fertilization and the process of pregnancy. It also explains the contractions and the stages of birth, and there are some notions of paediatrics and child care. This time, in which women are very receptive to information, is used by instructors to further explain some basic knowledge of women's health, such as self breast for early detection of cancer, or contraception.

Breastfeeding is also a chapter on the formation of the expectant mother.
In the practical classes are taught relaxation, breathing and gymnastics. Each person uses the techniques of the school which has trained but, basically, are all simple, so that pregnant women can practice alone.

With gymnastics is intended to prepare the areas of the body that will withstand greater stress during childbirth. Breathing is a weapon that will help women to maintain calm and for good measure the force.

One of the most important objectives of the entire course of preparation that price is to serve as a forum for the pregnant woman who can express their fears, get rid of ancient myths, manage the anxiety that it produces its new status and prevent postpartum depression.

The presence of a psychologist to help prepare the change that represents the arrival of the baby is therefore absolutely imperative. Prepartum courses typically consist of ten lessons that are taught in as many weeks. Each class lasts, typically 2 hours. They usually start in the sixth or seventh month of pregnancy.

Wrong methods of contraception

• Sexual intercourse switches is not a method, neither prevents the transmission of sexual diseases. Before the ejaculate during intercourse, are eliminated droplets of semen with a high concentration of spermatozoa, of the best and most skilled. This way of trying to prevent pregnancy creates problems for the couple and, separately, to men and women (and serious difficulties erection ejaculation, chronic pelvic congestion, pain during sexual intercourse and difficulty in orgasm).

• During lactation is important to follow the advice of the LAM (amenorrhea method for breast-feeding). There is only possibility that it will not happen during the first six months after birth, as long as breastfeeding is "on demand", "exclusive" (without the supplement bottles) and there is menstruation. There are special pills for breastfeeding.

• The vaginal washings are proscribed. A shower vaginal cause damage similar to that which would arise to wash his throat with a toothbrush, something that was not happen to anyone. As a method of birth control do not serve: little seconds after ejaculation, there are already enough sperm stored in the folds of the cervix to produce multiple pregnancies.