Health education topics.
You may want to express milk from your breasts to relieve engorgement, to help increase milk production, or to provide milk for your baby while you are away. You can express milk manually or with a breast pump. Here’s how you do it: To Express Milk By Hand • Wash your hands • Massage your … Read more
Sore Nipples Breastfeeding is not supposed to hurt.In the first day or two of breastfeeding, your breasts may feel tender when your baby’s first few sucks stretch your nipple and areola way back in her mouth. Usually, this tenderness will go away when your milk comes in and begins to flow. If after two to … Read more
While you are breastfeeding, you should get into a routine of taking special care of your breasts, especially the nipples, which will benefit you and your baby. Here are some tips to help you keep your breasts in good health: • Check both nipples after each feeding — If your nipples are sore or cracking, … Read more
There are things to know that can make breastfeeding much easier for you and your baby. For instance, knowing how important it is for you and your baby to get comfortable before you start and learning some proven techniques that other moms have used for nursing are two things that can help you tremendously. Read … Read more
Right After Birth Physically connecting with your baby right after birth is the most natural thing in the world. Letting her hear your voice, see your eyes, and smell and feel your skin begins the physical bond that is so important. For moms who will breastfeed, it’s a good time to hold your baby skin-to-skin … Read more
How Your Breasts Make And Deliver Milk Within your breasts is a system of milk glands that makes and delivers milk to your baby through your nipples. (1) High up in your breasts are milk glands (the leaves), which are grapelike clusters of cells that make the milk. (2) Milk travels from these glands through … Read more
You may be reading this booklet because you have decided to breastfeed or you are still trying to decide and want to know what is involved. In either case, this booklet can help you. Since breastfeeding is not something you were born knowing how to do, this booklet was written to give you detailed information … Read more
Most women carry their babies to full-term and deliver without problems.Most women with gestational diabetes carry their babies the full nine months and do not have any problems, and most are able to deliver their babies through normal labor and vaginal birth. During the last part of your pregnancy, your doctor and members of the … Read more
To lower your risks, keep up your healthy eating and exercise habits.Shortly after delivery, your blood-glucose levels will probably return to normal and your temporary gestational diabetes will be over because you no longer have the placenta inside you, which was producing the insulin-resistant hormones. Your body’s natural balance of hormones and insulin should return. … Read more
Your doctor will monitor your baby’s health & growth until delivery.Since mothers with gestational diabetes are especially concerned with the health of their babies, doctors often suggest certain tests. Your doctor may ask you to have one or more of these tests during your last trimester and regularly until delivery to measure your baby’s growth … Read more