Starting Bottle Feeding
Your baby’s bottle, nipples and the equipment used to prepare the milk need scrupulous attention to prevent a build-up of bacteria. The amount of equipment you buy depends on which type of formula you use and on how you organize your sterilizing.... Read more
Food And Growth
New babies need as much breast milk or properly made formula as they willingly drink and the offer of some cooled boiled water a couple of times each day. They do not need anything else until they are at least three months old. Once the birthweight has... Read more
Burping, Bubbling, Or Bringing Up Air
There is always air in your baby’s stomach. He swallows some while crying or just breathing as well as when he feeds. If you feed with the baby in a fairly upright position, the heavier milk will find its way to the bottom of the stomach and the... Read more
Bottle Feeding Basics
If you are formula feeding your baby before one year of age, a commercially prepared formula is recommended. Evaporated milk formulas are not as well suited to your baby’s nutritional needs. Whole, 2 percent, 1 percent, skim, and goat’s milk... Read more
Bottle Feeding
. . . but a baby can revel in bottle-feeding too. We have no real alternative to the breast-fed baby’s colostrum, so while the bottle-fed baby may start life with one or two drinks of sugared water, formula will be offered by the second day. This... Read more
Starting Breast Feeding
You and your baby will soon take breast-feeding pleasurably for granted, but while you are getting used to it, mutual comfort is important. Clothes that open down the front, for example, make it easier to bare your breasts than “fishing” down... Read more
Expressing And Storing Breast Milk
Expressing and storing your breast milk allows you to leave your baby for a while. without altering her usual diet. Although awkward and slow at first, expression becomes easier with practice. You will need clean hands, clean equipment, and bottles or... Read more
Some Early Breast Feeding Problems
Almost every woman has some problems or questions with breast-feeding in the first weeks after birth. Some of these are common and predictable and can be handled quite easily. Others are more serious and require more information and assistance. Following... Read more
Breast Feeding Basics
First Feedings You can help establish your milk supply and avoid some early breast-feeding problems by nursing your baby as soon after birth as possible and by allowing your baby to suckle frequently. When mothers breast-feed within an hour after birth... Read more
Breast Feeding
[picture] Some babies are born naturally “sucky” . . . Getting started with breast-feeding is not always easy. Just as many babies need to be tactfully shown how to use their sucking reflexes, so many breasts have to be gradually persuaded... Read more
Feeding Your Baby
During pregnancy, a baby grows rapidly from a fertilized egg to a mature baby weighing around seven pounds. All the nutritional needs are met by his mother’s body. For the newborn, growth also continues at a rapid rate, but now he is dependent on... Read more