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Mar 15, 2011

Particularity breastfeeding in premature infants

Refers to pregnancy in premature infants less than 37 weeks of neonatal, due to various physiological function in preterm infants may not sound, has its special feeding in preterm infants. Premature infants may be due to the merging of some serious diseases, or hospitalization due to underweight. Separation of hospitalized children and mothers, will affect breastfeeding as normal. As separated from the mother, child and mother is very good contacts, not sucking, breast milk secretion of affected; also because the separation of mother and child, mother\'s mood has been a greater impact, which will affect the mother\'s breast milk secretion. How to stick to breastfeeding in premature infants?

First, the mother must have confidence, belief in his own breast milk is best for feeding the child, to find a way to let your child eat breast milk, or find a way to let your child eat breast milk after discharge. Second, and premature contacts as possible, such as child hospital room of mother and infant in the hospital ward, MOM must accompany children lived in a room of mother and infant wards. Third, not sucking or sucking of a weak child, mother to milk on time (squeeze once at least every three hours), and then out of milk to feed the baby.


For preterm infants with sucking ability, you can directly, as soon as possible to let the child sucking mother\'s nipple. When breastfeeding should pay attention to proper breast feeding posture, helps children with suck most of the nipple and areola, so as to effectively stimulate lactation reflex, enabling children to eat more easily to breast milk.


For preterm infants with poor sucking ability should be out to milk to feed the children. Eyedropper or small spoon feed available to children. The burette should be attached to a special medical instrument sector to buy. TSP should use porcelain spoon or blunt the edge stainless steel spoons as well. Whether use the eyedropper or porcelain spoon and stainless steel spoon fro

m premature infants to breast milk slowly fed into her mouth, inhalation must not be too hasty to make breast milk the baby\'s trachea.

Sucking in preterm infants is often insufficient, intake of not too many at a time, so to give feeding in preterm infants, 12 milk feeding in premature infants should be a day or so.


If hospitalized children cannot eat mother\'s milk, milking mother will insist, let your child can eat breast milk after discharge. This is very important for premature infants, because of physical development in preterm infants have a term of no child left behind, you need to have a catch up with the process, breastfeeding is a powerful guarantee of the process. If we stick to breastfeeding of preterm infants following hospital discharge, breastfeeding will be successful.

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