Question

write an instructional document on infant feeding to be used by new employees in an infant care facility what social aspects of infant feeding should be included in addition to nutritional and infant - handling factors

Answer 1

Infant feeding is the process of feeding the infants breast milk till they are 6 months of age and after 6 months feeding and addition of foods like rice water, gram water ,oats with milk etc to initiate weaning .

Some of the instructions to be followed while infant feeding are :-

- colostrum should given to the baby ,it should not be discarded as it contains many essential immunoglobulin ,vitamins , minerals etc and provide immunity to the child

- no other foood supplements should given to the baby . Breast milk is the complete food ,and if there 9s any difficulty with the mother to feed due to some disease etc then bottle feedings should be done . Both breast feeding and bottle feeding should not be done .

- infant should not be given any turmeric powder, gold ,honey etc on the basis cultural beliefs .

- privacy should be maintained during breast feeding

- mother should be taught about correct breast feeding method and position like baby should be positioned in such a way that it's mouth is wide open , more of the above nipple portion is inside the mouth than below portion , baby is looking onto the breast , baby should be stimulated by tapping at the side of mouth and when the baby opens the mouth nipple should be put inside .

- mother should be encouraged to breastfeed by explaining her the advantages of breastfeeding to the infant and hersel

- mother should be instructed to breast feed 8 to 10 times a day and also should breast feed at night times whenever the baby is hungry .

- mother should be taught about the indications of effective breastfeeding like after breastfeeding baby sleeps for 2 to 3 hours , urinates 4to 6 times and there is an increase in weight of 15 to 30 gram /day

- after feeding the baby ,burping should be done to prevent regurgitation .

- after and before breastfeeding hand washing and cleaning of breast should be done .