Breastfeeding
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Instructor: Patricia Gima, IBCLC, Board-Certified Lactation Consultant
Location: Well-Rounded Maternity Center, Menomonee Falls
Contact: 262-253-6510
This informative 2-hour class covers the following topics:
- Getting started at the hospital
- Engorgement (reverse pressure softening to allow baby to feed while engorgement is resolved), (use of cabbage leaves)
- Positioning baby at breast (Sore nipples means that the latch is not correct.)
- Thrush
- Slow weight gain
- Sore nipples
- Tongue Tie
- Output of urine and BM
- Jaundice
- Mother's diet
- Colic
- Why avoid formula in the first 2 weeks
- Expressing colostrum if newborn cannot feed at the breast
- Benefit of slings
- Skin to Skin
- Important role of Dad at birth and afterwards
- Mother's use of antihistamines, cold meds, alcohol, other meds and herbals
- When mother is ill--viruses, colds, etc
