I have just read an interesting article which only once more proves the necessity of baby breast feeding for a mother and a child. So, this is what I have read in the newspaper:
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has announces its new recommendations. The aim of these recommendations is to forward the baby breast feeding, because the value of this product is much higher than the values of different infant formulas. With this announcement AAP has changed its point of view to baby breast feeding which has been existing since 1982. It the new recommendations AAP says that:
- Baby breast feeding should be provided to a child for not less than 12 months and even longer (if both a mother and a child want it).
- The nursing should be started as soon as possible after delivery of a child. The greatest variant is when the period between the birth and the first baby breast feeding is lees than an hour.
- Infants should be fed on demand at the first sign of hunger, such as: anxiety, agitation, opening of the mouth or something like this (rather than waiting for a late sign of hunger, such as crying).
- If direct baby breast feeding is not possible, the child should be breastfed with expressed breast milk.
- In the first 24-48 hours after the child’s birth, an experienced and trained specialist should help a mother with baby breast feeding. The specialist also has to visit the nursing mother at home within 48-72 hours after discharge.
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