Nourish Your Bundle of Joy

Elements of Successful Breastfeeding

• Skin-to-skin

• Early hand expression

• Deep latch

• Feeding on demand

Skin-to-Skin

• Calms baby

• Helps baby adjust to new environment

• Promotes bonding

• Increases prolactin and oxytocin (important hormones for making milk and breastfeeding)

Hand Expression within the first hour after birth may help milk production increase by up to 130%.

Benefits of Breastfeeding

Your custom-designed milk protects your baby’s health.

• Breastfeeding your baby early and often tells your body to produce more milk.

• It increases your bond with your baby and supports optimal development.

• Breastfeeding reduces your baby’s risk of getting respiratory, gastrointestinal and ear infections, and also protects from Crohn’s disease, Type I diabetes and even childhood cancers.

• Breastfeeding for at least two months reduces the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by 50%.

Providing breast milk protects your health as well as baby’s health.

Making milk (lactation) reduces mother’s risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and also reduces her risk of developing obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes later in life.

Colostrum is the first milk that your breasts produce. This highly concentrated milk is the perfect first food for your baby and provides the first immune protection.