La Leche League GB introduces 3 new publications Caesarean Birth and Breastfeeding, Supporting a Breastfeeding Mother and My Baby Needs More Milk
Breastfeeding is the normal and natural way to feed a baby. The Caesarean Birth and Breastfeeding information sheet provides the information a mum needs to help breastfeeding get off to a good start, with suggestions for before, during and after a caesarean birth. Often a breastfeeding mother needs a lot of support following a caesarean birth. The new information sheet Supporting a Breastfeeding Mother is full of practical ways in which family and friends can help during this important time while My Baby Needs More Milk offers information on increasing milk production for when breastfeeding didn't get off to a good start.
Nottingham, UK (PRWeb UK/PRWEB ) April 2, 2009 -- La Leche League GB is pleased to announce the publication of the new information sheets:
Caesarean Birth and Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding completes the normal, natural cycle of pregnancy, labour and birth. During pregnancy a mother's body is preparing to give birth and her breasts are getting ready to feed her baby. A caesarean birth interferes with these natural processes and may make establishing breastfeeding more of a challenge. However, many mums do successfully breastfeed after a caesarean birth.
Not only is breastfeeding the normal, natural and healthy way to feed a baby--it can give a mum who has experienced a caesarean birth renewed confidence in her body's abilities. The close physical contact can also help her feel better emotionally. Breastfeeding helps the womb to contract, resulting in quicker healing. And it's nature's way of ensuring a mum spends time sitting or lying down, resting and recovering.
This information sheet provides detailed information a mum needs to help get breastfeeding off to a good start, with suggestions for before, during and after a caesarean birth.
Supporting a Breastfeeding Mother
Families need time to adjust after the arrival of a baby. Even experienced mothers can have difficulties juggling the needs of the new baby with those of older children. At this time a pair of practical helping hands can make a significant difference by allowing a mother time to recover from the birth and establish breastfeeding.
This information sheet offers practical tips for anyone supporting a breastfeeding mum and provides answers to questions supporters frequently ask.
My Baby Needs More Milk
Although most mothers are able to produce enough milk for their babies' needs, a mother may have concerns about her own supply. Perhaps she and her baby had a difficult start or were not given the support they needed to establish breastfeeding. Or all may have seemed to be going well until the baby's weight gain pattern faltered. Sometimes well-meaning people sow the seeds of doubt in a mother's mind. And if a baby is fussy, wants to feed much of the time, seems small, or gains weight slowly, it can be easy for a mother to believe she doesn't have enough milk.
This comprehensive A3 Information Sheet from LLLGB is an invaluable tool for helping a mother assess if her baby is getting enough milk and describes in detail the steps she can take should she need to increase her milk production. Where supplements are needed while a mother works to improve her milk supply, My Baby Needs More Milk provides essential information on how they may be given alongside breastfeeding and how to return to full breastfeeding once supplements are no longer necessary.
More information
All our A4 information sheets are available as a single sheet or a pad of 50 sheets. Pads of 50 tear off sheets are the perfect resource for use in mother support groups, breastfeeding classes and clinics. Each pad currently retails at a cost effective £4.99 each, just under 10p per sheet.
A3 format information sheets are folded to a convenient A5 size and retail at £4.99 for 20 copies or individually at £1.50..
Other titles available include:
Adjusting to Motherhood
Amazing Milk for Babies
Antenatal Expression of Colostrum
Blocked Ducts and Mastitis
Breastfeeding Basics
Breastfeeding Your Adopted Baby
Caesarean Birth and Breastfeeding
Choosing a Breast Pump
Dads are Special
Diabetes and Breastfeeding
Engorged Breasts - avoiding and treating
Hand Expression of Breast Milk
Importance of Breastfeeding
Is My Baby Getting Enough Milk?
Jaundice in Healthy Newborns
My Baby Needs More Milk (A3)
My Baby Won't Breastfeed
Nipple Know How for Breastfeeding Mothers
Nipple Shields
Out and About with your Breastfed Baby
Persistent Diarrhoea in Babies and Toddlers
Preparing to Breastfeed
Rhythms and Routines
Safe Sleep and the Breastfed Baby
Sleepy Newborn - Is this a problem?
Smoking and Breastfeeding
Staying Home Instead
Storing Your Milk
Supporting a Breastfeeding Mother
Treating Thrush (A3)
Tips for Breastfeeding Twins
Working and Breastfeeding
A single copy of all the above titles is available for only £9.99 in a sample set.
All our breastfeeding publications are available online from www.lllgbbooks.co.uk or by phoning 0845 456 1866.
Breastfeeding for health
Recent research has increased the knowledge of the health risks to both mother and child from not breastfeeding. Babies who are not exclusively breastfed for the first six months have an increased risk of:
| | - Gastrointestinal conditions
- Chest infections
- Ear infections
- Obesity
- Developing diabetes
- Having a heart attack in later life.
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Breastfeeding protects against infection and allergies. Women who breastfeed have a reduced risk of osteoporosis, breast and ovarian cancer and find it easier to return to their normal weight after the birth.
Breastfeeding for well-being
La Leche League believes that breastfeeding, with its many important physical and psychological advantages, is best for both a mother and her baby, and is the ideal way to initiate good parent-child relationships. The loving help and support of the baby's father enables the mother to focus on mothering so that together parents can develop close relationships that strengthen the family and thus the whole fabric of society.
La Leche League has been offering breastfeeding help, support and encouragement to women for over 50 years. We provide monthly support meetings, telephone counselling, leaflets and up-to-date information. For details of local groups visit our website www.laleche.org.uk or phone our national helpline 0845 120 2918. LLL's trained counsellors (Leaders) are volunteers working from home while caring for their own families.
Editor's notes:
La Leche League (LLL) was founded in 1956 by seven mothers who wanted to make breastfeeding easier and more rewarding for both mother and child. The organisation continues to provide information and encouragement--primarily through personal help--to women who want to breastfeed their babies.
LLLGB, a Registered UK Charity (Number 283771) is part of La Leche League International which is active in 65 countries and territories reaching more than 200,000 mothers monthly through a network of over 6,700 accredited, volunteer counsellors (known as Leaders).
LLL International is a major publisher of breastfeeding and parenting books. LLLGB sells these and other books through its trading subsidiary, LLLGB Books (www.lllgbbooks.co.uk)
LLL International is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in consultative status with UNICEF, in official relations with the World Health Organisation (WHO), and is a founding member of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA).
LLLGB is represented on The National Network of Breastfeeding Coordinators, the Baby Feeding Law Group, various other committees including the Unicef UK Baby Friendly Steering Committee, and is a member of the Breastfeeding Manifesto Coalition.
For further details about La Leche League GB please contact pr(at)laleche.org(dot)uk
La Leche League is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England.
PO Box 29, West Bridgford, Nottingham. NG2 7NP.
Registered Charity Number 283771. Registered office: 129a Middleton Boulevard, Wollaton Park, Nottingham. NG8 1FW.
Registered Number 01566925
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