Breastfeeding Flashcards
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What is the significance of skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth for breastfeeding?
Answer: It triggers innate newborn reflexes that facilitate self-attachment, stabilizes infant temperature and blood sugar, and is associated with earlier and more successful breastfeeding initiation
Immediate skin-to-skin contact activates innate newborn feeding reflexes and significantly improves breastfeeding outcomes.
What is a supplemental nursing system (SNS) and when is it indicated?
Answer: It delivers supplemental milk through a thin tube taped to the breast, allowing the infant to receive extra milk while stimulating the breast during direct nursing
An SNS delivers supplemental milk at the breast through a thin tube, maintaining breast stimulation while providing needed nutrition.
A mother asks about breastfeeding during a subsequent pregnancy. What is the evidence?
Answer: It is generally safe for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies, though milk composition and volume may change
For women with healthy, uncomplicated pregnancies, breastfeeding during pregnancy is generally considered safe.
What is tandem nursing and what are its considerations?
Answer: Breastfeeding both an older child and a newborn after a subsequent birth, with priority given to the newborn's colostrum needs
Tandem nursing refers to breastfeeding an older child and a newborn simultaneously after a new birth.
How does breast milk composition change for a premature infant versus a full-term infant?
Answer: Preterm breast milk is higher in protein, fat, sodium, and immune factors compared to term milk
Breast milk produced by mothers of premature infants has higher concentrations of key nutrients matched to the preterm infant's greater needs.
What is relactation and what factors influence its success?
Answer: It is the re-establishment of milk production after discontinuation, with success influenced by the duration of the gap, breast stimulation frequency, and infant cooperation
Relactation is possible even after an extended period, with success influenced by multiple factors.