By: Luna Weiss-Salinas

Nutritional and Health Advantages

Provides the correct balance of fat and protein Ensures nutritional completeness Helps ensure healthy physical growth Protects against diseases Protects against faulty jaw development Ensures digestibility Easier transition to solid foods

Meeting Nutritional Needs

Human Milk High in fat Low in protein Easily absorbed iron Ideal nutrition for babies Sterile and at body temperature

Nutritional Needs Continued

Decreases the frequency of almost every common

infectious disease due to transferred antibodies from mother. Rich in brain-building omega 3's, namely DHA and AA. Formula is not.

Benefits for Mom

Breastfeeding promotes weight loss.
Burn from 500 - 1,500 calories per day. Helps the uterus contract after birth to control

postpartum bleeding. Breast milk is more convenient when traveling. Bonding time between Mom and baby. Breastfeeding makes you feel good.

Fathers Role in Feeding

Dad will want to share

in this special bonding time too. Dad can give baby a bottle of breast milk. Make sure breast milk is used because giving your baby formula can decrease your milk production.

Learning Capacities
Rooting reflex is present at birth and helps infant find

the nipple Sucking is present at birth and permits infant feeding

Learning Capacities Continued...

Classical Conditioning Pairing a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that leads to a reflexive response

Breast milk results in sucking Pair the presence of breast milk with a neutral stimulus such as forehead stroking Forehead stroking will cause sucking to occur

Operant Conditioning Learning in which a spontaneous behavior is followed by a stimulus that influences the probability that the behavior will occur again

Sweet milk reinforces the sucking response This results in an increase in sucking behavior

Biting
Biting while nursing might begin around 4 6 months
Cant breastfeed and bite at the same time. Reasons for biting include: tiredness, boredom, curiosity

Baby is still learning how to use teeth.

Biting Continued
Remove your baby from breast and firmly say, No

biting. Lets him know that you do not like his behavior Known as Punishment in operant conditioning Teaching baby the cause and effect of his actions: If he bites while nursing, Mom will remove the breast. After you remove your breast, wait a few seconds and try again Connect your actions with the infants behavior.

How to stop biting before it happens

Remove your breast after rhythmic sucking has stopped.
Then move him to the second breast before he has a

chance to get bored or tired which are the red alerts for biting.

State

Percent Ever Breastfed

Percent Breast-feeding at 6 Months

Percent Breast-feeding at 12 Months

Percent Exclusive Breast-feeding at 3 Months

Percent Exclusive Breast-feeding at 6 Months

Kentucky

53.6

28.9

15.8

27.2

9.4

S. Carolina

61.3

30.4

13.9

25.5

9.6

Tennessee

58.8

37.9

14.8

28.2

12.8

Louisiana

49.1

20.7

9.9

17.8

5.0

Mississippi

48.3

20.1

8.7

16.8

4.6

New Mexico Arizona California Washington

72.6 76.5 84.7 85.4

42.2 45.3 53.0 58.0

25.7 22.3 31.1 35.0

33.2 29.7 42.4 48.8

14.0 11.9 18.6 25.3

Public Acceptance

Peer Support

Resources
http://www.aap.org/healthtopics/breastfeeding.cfm
The CDC Guide to Breastfeeding Interventions