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Breastfeeding Hints & Tips

1. Bring your baby to your breast, not your breast to your baby.
2. Remember your baby’s feeding position: chin to breast and nose to nipple.
3. Eat and drink plenty and regularly.
4. Accept all offers of help in the early weeks so you can devote yourself to establishing breastfeeding.
5. Avoid sore nipples by making sure your baby latches on properly.
6. Top-up feeds shouldn’t be necessary.
7. Be confident in your ability to feed your baby. You can do it.
8. Expressing and storing some breast milk can give you more flexibility and freedom.
9. Enjoy this special warmth, closeness and bonding time with your baby – even if it does seem to take up all your time at first!
10. Feeding on demand ensures a good supply of breast milk.
11. It’s very rare not to have enough milk.
12. Your milk is a unique and perfect food – after all, nature intends babies to be fed this way.
13. Going back to work doesn’t have to mean the end of breastfeeding.

Always seek prompt medical attention if:

• Your baby seems unusually sleepy and /or refuses feeds.
• Your baby seems unusually unsettled and is crying more than usual.
• You feel flu-like, hot, cold, aching or generally unwell.
• You have any redness, tenderness or lumpiness in your breasts.

“Every day you breastfeed is a day well spent, so pat yourself on the back and carry on”