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ll professional health workers agree that breastfeeding has unique benefits for your baby. By creating moments of real sharing and intimacy, it helps reassure you in your new role as a mother and therefore helps you gain in confidence! Of course, it’s not the only way to feed your baby: there are many factors which may lead you to choose mixed feeding with both breast and bottle or bottle-feeding only.
Choosing how to feed Breastfeeding
Mixed feeding
Health professionals stress that mother’s milk is the ideal food for new-borns because it provides for all your baby’s needs. It develops according to his requirements and contains antibodies to protect him against common diseases, like diarrhea and pneumonia.
You may have reason to choose «mixed feeding». When you return to work, for example, or to allow the dad to give the bottle to your baby.
Breastfeeding is a natural act, but it can sometimes have a few drawbacks… If you are breastfeeding, and things aren’t going as you would wish, please do not lose heart: three weeks on average are needed for the feeding process to become established, with a mature supply of breast milk.
There are 2 types of «mixed feeding»: • Breastfeeding + expressing milk in order to feed your baby from a bottle • Breastfeeding + formula milk given in a bottle. When the time comes to wean the baby completely, he will have become used to the bottle and so the transition will be easy.
The advice of our midwife Sylvette Rambaud
"If you have chosen to breast-feed, you will find it a rewarding emotional experience and a source of great intimacy with your baby. The first time you put your baby to the breast is of particular importance for the success of your new venture, so make sure you have support right from the start. Don’t hesitate to approach your midwife or health visitor during the early days, and to ask for help after you have come out of hospital."
Lucie (30), mother of Emma (5 months)
Equiping yourself for feeding Nothing could be simpler for your peace of mind: always have a feeding bottle and a little formula milk in reserve, just in case you are not able to breast-feed. The equipment is straightforward. You will need a breast pump, several bags and storage jars for keeping your milk cool, and teats which are specially adapted to facilitate the transition from breast to bottle.
«I had definitely decided to breast-feed… but in the end, it proved difficult to get it going: I had trouble finding the right position with my baby and managing the timing of feeds… I contacted my midwife to find a satisfactory solution before it really began to disturb my relationship with my daughter. When a friend asks me for advice on breastfeeding, I always tell her to get good information and not hesitate to ask for support!»
Choose a specially adapted teat, as this will come closest to reproducing the natural effect of feeding from your nipple.
Feeding problems Painful breasts Painful breasts are quite common at the start of feeding, when you are trying to get it going, and they are often caused by a bad position. Don’t hesitate to contact your midwife or breastfeeding counsellors to find good positions. Don’t forget, there are several very useful products which can ease the pain and protect your breasts: •C old compresses have an anaesthetising effect . •S ilicone nipples can provide temporary help for mother and baby, by preventing rubbing which can cause irritation. Choose very thin silicone nipples – they will make it easier to return to direct feeding from the breast.
Cracks Cracks are lesions in the nipple which can be quite painful: to prevent them, try not to let milk soak into your breasts and be careful about the position of your baby when feeding. Here are a few tips which will prove effective: • Use nipple shields to protect your nipples during feeding. • Consider using breast shells which will prevent milk soaking in by keeping the nipple exposed to the air, making for more rapid healing. • Use the breastfeeding pads; they are very absorbent to avoid any humid contact on your breasts. • It’s useful to know that mother’s milk itself has a healing effect! After each feed, just use a few drops of your own milk to massage your nipple.
Engorgement Engorgement is one of the classic problems of breastfeeding: inflammation of the breasts restricts the flow of milk by blocking your milk ducts. Your breasts become very heavy and painful and you have a strong sensation of being too full… and yet the milk does not flow. Engorgement most often occurs after a period without feeding. A few bits of advice: • Feed your baby, because feeding will release the flow of milk and get the system going again. • Use warm compresses or take a warm shower. A little tip: heat encourages milk to flow. • Remove the excess by using a mini-breast pump.
If these problems persist, don’t hesitate to ask for professional help. These are frequently experienced worries, but they should not be allowed to take hold.
How to choose the right teat
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ucking from a teat can be very different from sucking the breast, so sometimes the baby refuses his bottle…The choice of teat is therefore important to ensure that everything goes as well as possible! Be careful to also choose the right flow rate so that baby can drink at his own pace. This reduces the risk of regurgitation and colics.
The Natural Comfort Teat The Natural Comfort teat has been designed in collaboration with experts on new-born babies. It works in harmony with your baby’s natural sucking action: the distinctive asymmetrical and physiological shape imitates the shape of the breast so as to resemble natural feeding as closely as possible. • The flat part enables the tongue to reproduce the natural movement it makes at the breast. • Two «Dual Air system» valves regulate the air flow and the outflow of milk to allow baby to drink at his own pace and therefore to reduce the risk of colics and regurgitation. • It has been tested by 167 babies and accepted without any problem by 95%* of them, including breast-fed babies.
Some advice Natural Comfort teat on choosing the right degree HOW TO CHOOSE THE TEAT? of flow! Newborn size
SMALLER SIZE FOR 1ST MONTHS
• For 1st weeks or for breastfed babies
•After 1st weeks or for babies having sucking trouble
Baby size
WHEN BABY IS GROWING
•Usually from 4 months on
One size
SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES
• Ideal for weaning (cereals, soup, bits)
• To adjust flow during a feed
Harris Interactive Test - february 2012
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How to recognise colic? Is it colic or hunger that is making baby cry? It’s not always easy to distinguish them! To recognise colic, observe his behaviour: he will be agitated and bending his legs upwards against his stomach, seemingly inconsolable. Colics can appear a few days after birth and disappear around the 3rd month. They can affect breast-fed babies as well as bottle-fed ones. Dr Corbineau, a paediatrician, is reassuring: «Colics are merely the sign of an immature digestive system. They may cause a little pain but don’t be too worried: they are benign and they will come to an end.»
How to relieve colic? • Rock your baby, walk him in the pram, sing to him softly. • Give him a bath to relax him. • Offer him a dummy if he has one, as sucking is soothing. • Massage his tummy.
Watch the video for effective anti-colic massages!
How to prepare your feeding bottles properly Of course, your bottle should, above all, be perfectly clean and sterilized! After that it’s fairly simple: Fill your bottle with mineral water (or your breast milk), then heat it. Consider using the bottle warmer to reach the ideal uniform temperature of 37°C. nce your water is well heated, add the O appropriate quantity of milk. Be careful – in order to have the correct quantity of water, it is essential to put the water in before the milk powder.
Put the teat on last. hake the bottle to ensure the powder is well S dissolved. And there you go, it’s ready, have a nice meal, baby!
How many bottles should i give per day? Dr Corbineau, paediatrician
"There is no hard and fast answer because it depends on the needs of each child. However, you can follow this basic rule: during the early weeks, your baby will need 6 to 7 bottles per 24 hours (from 60 to 120 ml), which means a bottle every 3-4 hours. You can then increase the quantities of milk over the ensuing months, while reducing the number of daily bottles. Remember to prepare your bottle just before a feed so that you are feeding your baby under the best hygienic conditions."
What is the situation regarding Bisphenol A? Bisphenol A (BPA) was frequently used in the manufacture of food containers like bottles or babies’ feeding bottles. It is released when containers are heated to a high temperature (in microwave ovens or dishwashers). Doubts persist about its dangers. This is why, as a precautionary measure, it is now forbidden in feeding bottles and other food containers.
Natural Comfort bottle
The Natural Comfort bottle comes in several sizes to adapt to each stage of your child’s growth. • There is a choice of plastic (without bisphenol A) or glass. • With a wide neck making it easier to fill and clean. • It is also the first eco-designed bottle on the market! Made in France, it uses 20% less plastic and its environmental impact is reduced by 24%. For this new bottle, Bébé Confort received the Eco product award for sustainable development, thus proving a real commitment to the practice of eco-design. The Natural Comfort bottle is recommended by 95%* of parents who have tested it!
130 ml 140 ml
240 ml 270 ml
240 ml 330 ml
From 0 to 4 months
From 4 to 12 months
From 12 to 24 months
Easy Clip
the anti-leak innovation Have you heard of Easy Clip, the super-ingenious bottle which fastens in a single clip? It is guaranteed to be non-leak with its original and patented fastening system. It has already been adopted by parents, and even chosen as «Product of the year» in France!
Céline (3 children), Easy Clip user «At last THE FEEDING BOTTLE I needed. Easy care, no leakage and no more teats that fold in or collapse! My baby is happy so I am too!»
Harris Interactive Test - february 2012
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Our hygiene and sterilization advice Clean your bottles thoroughly We advise you to hand-wash your bottles, at least until your baby is three months old. fter feeding, rinse the bottle A with warm water so that the milk residue does not have time to dry. sing a small amount of U soapy water, scrub it with a bottle brush. ake the time to rinse T thoroughly.
Sterilizing your bottles A good clean can help protect your bottles from germs. However, experts still recommend sterilizing up to the age of three months. Choose the method which suits you best: • With steam: this is a quick and convenient method using an electric or microwave sterilizer. • With boiling water: several minutes will be required. • With cold water, using sterilization tablets: this method is not so quick but very convenient if you are travelling.
Sterilizing the dummy The most important thing is to sterilize your baby’s new dummy before giving it to him for the first time. Ideally, you should sterilize it regularly during your baby’s first two months, but it is not essential. However, be sure to wash it several times a day with soap and clear water. Rinse it regularly; including each time it falls on the ground. And since prevention is better than cure, how about keeping the dummy in a carrying box?
The expert’s advice
Janine Le Guinio, Quality Expert Bébé Confort
"Sterilization is a very good way to protect your baby from germs. It is advisable to use it for the first three months, particularly on items in contact with milk. Of course, sterilizing does not absolve you from careful washing!"
Sterilizing accessories The microwave express sterilizer This is a 3-in-1 product offering both hot and cold sterilization. The basket can also be used as a bottle-drainer. It is super-quick: in less than 3 minutes, your bottles, even the largest of them, will be sterilized and ready for use!
The electric sterilizer With its large capacity (5 wide-necked bottles), it offers an efficient sterilization in six minutes. Autonomous and ingenious, it stops automatically when the sterilization cycle has finished!
Franck (32), father of Lucas (6 months) « Preparing a bottle in the middle of the night is not so simple…especially if you are a deep sleeper! The first time I got up to prepare Lucas’ bottle, it took me a few minutes to get together all the things I needed: a clean bottle, the teat, his bib… and even then I managed to make two mistakes counting out the proportions of milk! Now I think ahead and prepare all the equipment beforehand.»
And to warm the bottle thoroughly? Why is the bottle-warmer more recommended than the microwave? Unlike the microwave, the bottle-warmer allows bottles to be warmed uniformly. It is also specially designed to heat the bottle for just the amount of time needed to obtain the ideal temperature, so preventing any risk of burning. In addition, modern bottle-warmers are almost as fast as microwaves. So they are full of advantages, especially at night!
The need to suck is natural B
abies have a natural need to suck. If they do not have a dummy, babies often put a finger, a thumb or their mother’s breast in their mouths. Sucking is calming and soothing for little ones.
Dummy or thumb? Of course babies use an inborn technique to soothe themselves, and that is thumb-sucking (some babies were already doing it in their mothers’ tummies!). However, as Doctor Fernandez testifies: «Choosing a dummy is a better option: they are more adapted to your baby’s physiology. A dummy reduces the risk of dental malformation». As the child grows, it will also be easier for him to decide to abandon his dummy than to stop sucking his thumb!
What type of dummy Rubber to choose? or silicone? It’s not always easy to choose a dummy among the large quantity of products found in the shops… so how do you choose the dummy which encourages optimum development of the mouth and teeth? •T he teat (the part which is in baby’s mouth) should be as thin as possible. •T he material should be soft, to reduce pressure on the gums. •T he shape should be «physiological», which is to say it should conform to the shape of the palate.
Your baby will make his preference known all by himself! You can choose from two types of dummies in Bébé Confort’s expert range:
Natural rubber or silicone.
Rubber (or latex) is the natural and traditional material: it is ultra-supple but its taste and smell are stronger than silicone and the material has a tendency to deteriorate more quickly. Silicone, on the other hand, is a more recent material: neutral and supple, it is easier to clean and more resistant over time.
Marc (30), father of Lisa (18 months) «We used Christmas as a way of helping our 2 year old daughter to stop using her dummy, by suggesting she gave it to Father Christmas! It worked very well!»
Clinical test
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ental Safe fulfils your baby’s natural need to suck while at the same time promoting good development of the mouth and teeth. It was developed in coordination with highly reputed dentists.
Dental Safe is the outcome of years of development with two top European dentists, Dr Rolph Brockhaus and Professor Rolf Hinz. It was then tested over three years in Germany. The result provided scientific proof that the Dental Safe dummy reduces pressure on babies’ jaws by 90%.
Dental safe’s unique advantages • An exclusive ultra-thin teat and a curve which is perfectly adapted to the shape of your baby’s palate. • A Size 0 (in latex) suitable for premature babies. • A little flange with specially designed air holes to limit mouth irritation in very small babies.
Unrivalled thinness: 3 mm.
Discreet shield with air holes to prevent soreness. Unique shape.
Our advice for good care
Laure Laboubée, Bébé Confort product manager
"As a hygiene measure, remember to replace your child’s dummy fairly often! As soon as you spot any sign of deterioration, on average every three months, change it. To support your child as he grows, encourage him to gradually give up his dummy (around two years of age)."
Discover all the other Bébé Confort products that will make your life easier! Your family outings will run more smoothly with the new Loola pushchair, the Easia baby carrier, the Nomad Cup... Travel in complete safety with the Isofix car seat… Add a little fun and colour to bath time with our ergonomic bath tub, toiletry essentials and don’t forget our learning toys like Hippo Fou.
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