Conducted by Pachelle Battie
Before you begin this course here are some questions to ponder upon:
- What is breastfeeding?
- Who does breastfeeding involve?
- Why should moms breastfeed?
- Were you or any of your siblings breastfed as a child?
- Breastfeeding: a mother providing nutrient rich milk to a baby from her breast.
- Breastfeeding is an intimate process between a mother and child but fathers are encouraged to offer support to mothers.
- Areola: The darker skinned area around the nipple of a breast.
- Engorgement: swelling and enlargement of the breasts.
- Lactation: producing and secreting milk.
- Oxytocin: A hormone produced in the brain that is released during nipple stimulation and it causes milk release (ejection) and uterine contractions.
- Casein: protein found in milk.
- Colostrum: A sticky white or yellow fluid secreted by the breasts during the second half of pregnancy and for a few days after birth, before breast milk comes in.
- It is high in protective antibodies that boost the newborn's immune system.
- Foremilk: Low-fat milk that comes from the breast first during breastfeeding or pumping.
- Hindmilk: Higher-fat milk that comes during the latter portion a breastfeeding or pumping as they become more drained.
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