The ABC of Breastfeeding

From the moment the child is applied to the chest should be addressed to a specific plan. This is necessary for the good of the child and contributes essentially to preserve the health of parents, therefore, be a good nurse, and his duty at the same time becomes a pleasure.


This implies, however, special attention to the mother’s own health, for your child is essentially dependent on him. Healthy, nutritious and digestible milk can only come from a healthy mother, and it is against common sense to expect that if a mother to her health and digestion by improper diet, lack of exercise, and impure air in May, however, in good health and not to provide a fluid for her child, as if she were diligently attentive to these important points. Each case of indisposition in the nurse can affect the baby.
This leads me to observe, which is a common mistake to believe that because a woman is nursing, we must, therefore, much to enjoy and add an allowance of wine, porter or other fermented liquor in their diet. The only result of this plan is to cause some unusual fullness in the system, which places the nurse on the verge of illness, and that in itself puts an end to the secretion of milk, tend to increase. The proper plan of the procedure is quite simple, being careful not to allow the ordinary laws of health, and mother, if she has a good constitution, allow a better nurse than by a foolish deviation based on ignorance and whim.

The following case proves the correctness of this statement:

A young man, confined to her first child, left the delivery room after the third week, a good nurse, and in perfect health. She had a small problem with his nipples, but was quickly overcome.

The shipper of the system has started, and a pint and a half liter of the drink was taken within four hours and twenty hours. Has been used for this, not because there was some irregularity in the supply of milk, as it is wide, and the child who is thriving, but because, having been a nurse, has said it is normal and necessary and that without her milk and strength not before long.

After the plan was followed a few days, the dream became a mother and ready to sleep in the day, headaches, thirst, hot skin, in fact, fever supervened; reduction in milk, and for the first time, the stomach and intestines of the child became disorderly. The goalkeeper was forced to leave, corrective measures have been prescribed, and all the symptoms, parents and children, were deleted after a certain time, and health restored.

Having been accustomed, before becoming a mother, one or two glasses of wine, and sometimes a glass of table beer, you are advised to follow precisely the diet of the former plan, but with the addition of half a pint of milk of barley in the morning and evening. Parents and the child continues in excellent health for the remainder of the lactation period and the second did not taste artificial food until the ninth month, mother’s milk enough for all your wishes.

Nobody can doubt that the porter was in this case, the source of disorder. The patient had gone into the room located in the heart in health, had a good time, and left his room (relatively) as strong as it has done. Its constitution has not been previously used in the repetition of the child carrier and nursing, had an abundance of milk, and was fully able, therefore, to carry out the tasks given to them, without the use of stimulants or any unusual support. Her previous habits were totally at odds with the plan was approved, the system became too full, the disease has occurred, and the result was not seen more than they should.

The plan to follow for the first six months. Until the milk is fully established, which May not be the second or third day after delivery (almost always in a first birth), the baby must be fed a little thin gruel, or when the third ‘ water and two thirds milk, bread sweetened with sugar.

After this time, you must obtain their food from within himself, and for a week or ten days the appetite of the child should guide the mother in terms of frequency of supply to the chest. The stomach at birth is low and are not yet accustomed to the food they want, therefore, are easily satisfied, but is often renewed. An interval of time, however, low enough to digest swallowed, is obtained before the appetite again revives, and a new supply is needed.

At the end of a week or what is essentially necessary, and with some children, this can be done safely from the first days of lactation, to feed babies at regular intervals of three or four hours a day and night. This allows sufficient time for each meal is digested, and tends to keep the children in the bowels of the order. Such regularity, moreover, do much to prevent fretfulness, and that constant cry, which seems as if it can be dispelled only by constantly putting the child within. A young mother is often in a very serious mistake in this particular case, given any expression of anxiety as an indication of the appetite, and when the baby cries, giving the breast, ten minutes, but not in May have elapsed since last meal. This is harmful or dangerous practice, since, by overloading the stomach, the food remains undigested, the intestines of the child are always of order, it quickly becomes feverish and agitated, and it may be lost, and when just to come over the rules of nursing, the baby might have become healthy and strong.

For the same reason, the child who sleeps with his father should not be allowed to keep the nipple in his mouth all night. If you care as suggested, you wake up, like when your meal approaches, with great regularity. Referring to the night nursing, I would suggest feeding your baby as a delay of ten p. m, and not put in the chest until five the next morning. Many mothers have adopted this indication, with a great advantage for their own health, and without any degradation of the child. With the latter becomes a habit, cause, however, must be taught earlier.

The previous plan, and without modification, through the sixth month.

After the sixth month of the date of weaning, if the father has a large supply of good food and milk, and her son is healthy and thriving, obviously, to it, any changes in your diet should be made. If not, but (and this, but too often is the case even before the sixth month) the child can be fed twice during the day and type of food chosen which, after some thought it is preferable to reach an agreement.