12. Mother's Nutrition During Breastfeeding
Learn about the importance of a healthy diet during breastfeeding in this informative chapter. Discover which foods you can consume without worry and which might need moderation. Additionally, gain practical tips on how to handle any food sensitivities your baby might show, thus ensuring both your well-being and theirs.
5. How to Maintain Milk Production?
Practical tips for managing and maintaining your milk production as you return to work, focusing on the importance of pumping during breaks and breastfeeding on demand during nights and days off to ensure adequate prolactin levels and milk supply.
8. How to Bottle Feed? The Kassing Method
Learn the Kassing method for bottle feeding, a technique that prevents nipple confusion between bottle and breast. This approach involves positioning the bottle horizontally, allowing the baby to actively draw the milk, replicating breastfeeding.
1. Considerations to Share with Your Medical Team
Explore your breastfeeding rights and how to secure them in the medical context. Learn to communicate your needs and wishes to the health team to promote an informed and supported breastfeeding experience, respecting your rights as a mother.
5. Stages of Breast Milk
Discover the fascinating transformations of breast milk in this chapter of our prenatal workshop. From valuable colostrum to rich mature milk, you will learn about the different phases of lactation and how each plays a crucial role in nourishing your baby. We offer practical tips and techniques like lymphatic massage to help you manage these changes and ensure successful breastfeeding.
11. Considerations for Bottles and Pacifiers in the Early Days
Learn effective methods to feed your baby without resorting to bottles in the early postpartum days. This chapter provides valuable insights on how early use of bottles can complicate the natural breastfeeding process and offers practical solutions that respect your baby's natural rhythm. Learn about the use of cups, spoons, and the syringe feeding technique to supplement feeding safely and effectively.
2. Types of breast pumps
We explore breast pumps for working mothers: manual, electric, and wireless, highlighting how to maximize efficiency and minimize discomfort. We include techniques for fitting the funnel size and hygiene tips for safe and effective extraction, facilitating the continuation of breastfeeding.
6. On-Demand Feeding and Nighttime Feedings
Explore how to attend to your baby based on their real needs with on-demand feeding. This chapter of the prenatal workshop focuses on recognizing your baby's hunger and comfort signals, including the importance of nighttime feedings. Learn why these feedings are crucial for maintaining adequate milk production and for the healthy development of your baby.
7. How to Know When Your Baby is Hungry
Learn to identify the early signs of hunger in your baby in this essential chapter of the prenatal workshop. Discover how to intuitively respond to movements and behaviors that indicate your baby is ready to feed, which facilitates effective latching and reduces stress for both you and your baby.
7. How to Bottle Feed to Minimize the Risk of Nipple Confusion?
Learn the proper techniques for warming and administering preserved breast milk, ensuring its nutritional quality is maintained. Discover how to adjust the ideal amount and temperature for bottle feeding your baby, respecting your pediatrician's advice and adapting to your child's specific needs.
9. Technique for Proper Latching
Delve into how to achieve optimal latching when breastfeeding, which is essential for both the mother's comfort and the baby's effective nutrition. In this chapter, you will learn how to properly position your baby, use the sandwich technique for a deep latch, and adapt to different areola sizes. Discover breastfeeding positions that promote healthy latching and prevent pain.
1. Return to work, emotional aspects
This chapter addresses the mixed emotions mothers face when returning to work and how to manage them by creating a milk bank. We offer strategies for managing anxiety and guilt, ensuring that your baby continues to benefit from breastfeeding while you advance professionally.
13. Medication Use During Breastfeeding
Navigate the challenges of medication during the early days of breastfeeding. This chapter provides you with online tools to verify the safety of medications and other products such as herbs and supplements, ensuring that your baby's health remains your top priority.
3. Breastfeeding Physiology: How Does Milk Production Work?
Discover the secrets of breast milk production in our third chapter of the prenatal workshop, where we address the crucial role of hormones and effective techniques to enhance breastfeeding. Learn to naturally tune into your baby's needs for a healthy and satisfying breastfeeding experience.
3. Storage and Preservation
Explore techniques for safely extracting and storing breast milk. You will learn how to handle expressed milk, how to refrigerate or freeze it correctly, and tips for maintaining quality during transport and storage, ensuring its optimal preservation.
4. When to Start the Milk Bank?
Discover the optimal time to start storing breast milk, with recommendations to make the most of the first postpartum month to understand and connect with your baby before beginning the milk bank.
8. How to Know if Your Baby is Getting Enough Milk
Leverage practical tools to ensure your baby is consuming enough milk. We will explore how pain during breastfeeding, observation of swallowing, and the condition of the breasts post-breastfeeding, along with tracking diapers, can provide you with peace of mind that your baby is well-nourished.
10. First Days at Home
Returning home with a newborn brings a mix of emotions and questions. This chapter offers clear strategies for feeding your baby on demand, ensuring they stay well-hydrated and energized. Discover techniques for waking your baby and tips for maintaining effective breastfeeding, avoiding common problems such as dehydration and low energy.
2. Golden Hour, Immediate Contact, and Rooming-In
Explore how skin-to-skin contact and rooming-in not only soothe and stabilize your newborn but also effectively initiate breastfeeding, laying the foundation for a lasting and healthy relationship.
6. Are there any foods that increase breast milk production?
Explore the relationship between diet and breast milk production, discovering foods or products that could affect your breast milk production.