Breastfeeding Your Hospitalized Baby

Increasing Your Milk Supply

• Do skin-to-skin/kangaroo care frequently.
• While pumping, look at a picture of your baby and smell something with your baby’s scent on it.
• Keep a pumping log to track 24-hour totals of milk pumped. It can be a paper log or phone app.
• See below for techniques to help increase milk supply.Watch a video on how to use your hands when you pump.

Transitioning to Breastfeeding

• Do breast milk oral care when your baby is not eating.
• Do skin-to-skin/kangaroo care with your baby and pump right after. Any infant contact will spike the hormones that increase milk production.
• Do non-nutritive sucking/suck training on an empty breast.
• 当您的宝宝开始在乳房中喂食时，将监控体重前和体重后。如果您的宝宝收到了配方，则可能需要继续补充，直到您的宝宝能够在乳房上完成全喂食为止。

If your baby received formula, you may need to continue supplementation until your baby can complete full feedings at the breast.

No one expects to have a premature or sick baby. Breast milk will provide your baby with many health benefits. Pumped breast milk can be given by alternative feeding methods if baby cannot go to breast.

支持人员可以帮助沐浴，打bur和尿布。诸如皮肤/袋鼠护理之类的舒缓技术将有助于放松婴儿并促进结合。

Why Breast Milk is Important

The benefits of breast milk include:

• Your body knows if your baby was born term or premature and will produce perfect nutrients in your breast milk for your newborn’s growth and development.
• Breast milk is more easily digested than formula.
• It contains antibodies to fight off infections.
• It reduces the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
• Breastfeeding can help prevent childhood obesity, respiratory illness, ear infection, diarrhea, leukemia and gastrointestinal infection.

Pumping Your Breast Milk

Breast milk is made by “supply and demand.” The more frequently you pump, the more breast milk you will produce. When stable after delivery, pumping should begin as soon as possible, perferably before 6 hours.

Supplies Needed

• Hospital-grade, double-electric breast pump
• Pump kit • Bottles • Labels • Liquid soap • Basin

Pumps

• If you have WIC, we can provide a hospital-grade pump. Call WIC to arrange pick-up.
• Ask the milk lab if you qualify for the loaner program.
• Call your insurance provider for breast pump options.
• Cleaning: Rinse, then soak pump parts in soapy water for 5 minutes, wash, rinse and air dry. Sterilize daily.

Pump 15 minuteswith a goal of eight or more sessions every 24 hours. Pump just before sleep, once during the night and first thing in the morning. The goal should be greater than 500 mls per day by day 14.

Your nurse will show you how to set up the pump kit and how to pump.

Label your bottles of milk with the date and time pumped.

• Visit the milk lab for supplies.
• We will provide an insulated milk transport cooler bag with ice packs, extra bottles and labels.

Managing Your Milk Supply

Stress and tension can make pumping less productive. To help you produce more milk, consider these suggestions:

• Make sure you are using the correct size breast shields for pumping. Contact your lactation consultant to help you determine the correct size.
• Use relaxation techniques such as dim lighting, a quiet area and music.
• Try to get plenty of rest.
• Make sure you are getting good nutrition and plenty of fluids.

Lactation Consultant Support Services

HealthPark医疗中心...... 239-343-5186
Cape Coral Hospital ................... 239-424-2246
Milk Lab........................................... 239-343-6403