Tag: breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is the ultimate bonding experience between you and your baby. You will cherish it forever! Sometimes it’s not always easy to breastfeed your baby directly, so storing breast milk for safe consumption later is very important. Here are nine tips for safely storing breast milk.

1. Wash your hands with soap and water before expressing milk and be sure the area where you are working is clean.

Breastfeeding is a special time in you and your baby’s life. During pregnancy your body has been getting you ready to breastfeed your newborn baby.  While your body is getting you physically ready, you may want to do some preparation in your last trimester to ensure breastfeeding is an enjoyable success. Here's how:

Learn as much as you can about breastfeeding. Talking to other nursing moms is a great place to start learning.  You can also read books or jump online to find articles that will introduce you to breastfeeding (like this one).

As soon as that plus sign first appears, your life is changed forever. The next 21 months (nine for pregnancy, 12 for the baby chaos that follows) are a whirlwind of adjustments, uncertainties, and expectations…with a really steep learning curve. You’re sure to get advice—on everything from birth plans to breastfeeding (or not) to baby gear—from everyone. (Grandma, the grocery clerk, and even that grumpy neighbor lady with the 15 cats will weigh in!)

Cash incentives may encourage new mothers to breastfeed until their infants are at least six months old, a small experiment suggests.

Pediatricians recommend that mothers exclusively breastfeed infants until at least six months of age because it can reduce babies’ risk of ear and respiratory infections, sudden infant death syndrome, allergies, childhood obesity and diabetes.

Mothers can benefit too, with longer periods of breastfeeding linked to lower risks of depression, bone deterioration and certain cancers.