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1000 Points In New Born Care – Part 3

1000 Points In New Born Care

1. There should not be a time schedule for breast feeds. As and when baby cries it has to be fed.
2. Some mothers’ breast nipple will be indrawn or shrunken. Those mothers should use nipple shield for feeding the baby.
3. Breast milk should not be stopped on any account unless otherwise doctors advise to stop breast feeding.
4. If cow’s milk, buffalo’s milk or tinned artificial milks are to be fed it has to be fed with wide mouthed bottles. Those bottles should be boiled for few minutes in boiling water and then should be used for feeding the baby.
5. Instead of bottle feeding it is better to give spoon feeding or feeding with the traditional ‘paladai’
6. If the baby is getting cow’s milk or buffalo’s milk or packet milk it has to be given with equal concentration of water for the first month of life. In another words the milk and water ratio should be 50:50 is in the first month of life. Then afterwards, that is from the second month onwards no need for dilution with water. Milk can be given without adding water to it.
7. If the breast feeding mother is a working women, before she leaves to the office she can express the breast milk and keep in a sterile container and it has to be stored in a refrigerator. As and when the baby cries for feeds that breast milk can be warmed & fed. Suppose if there is no refrigerator, expressed breast milk in a sterile container can be preserved in a mud pot. As and when the baby cries it has to be warmed and to be fed.
8. For good secretion of breast milk the mother has to take nutritious diet. There is no restriction in diet ager delivery. Mothers should drink plenty of fluids. Then only there will be adequate breast milk secretion.
9. If the baby is not breast fed in the night, breast milk will sour – is a superstition.
10. The first milk which is secreted is lemon Yellow in colour and is called as ‘Colostrum’. This is called as ‘Witch milk’ among the village folk and will be avoided. It is again a very bad superstition.