Early breastfeeding initiation: Program For New Born Baby

Early breastfeeding initiation: Program For New Born Baby

Some of you may have heard the benefits of breastfeeding, even when the government began to re-promote breast feeding programs in newborn infants, even when these have been developed and started to be socialized starting from 2006 that is Inisasi Early breastfeeding (IMD), both to the midwives and other health practitioners who practice to assist delivery. You are interested to know more about this program? Please follow this article completely.

ASI has a meaning that is much better than formula feeding

Any particular reason why the author did not add the suffix-i in the word "breastfeeding" this is addressed to the newborn baby itself is not to the mother who had just given birth to her immediately give milk to their babies. The point here is how to stimulate a natural thing for the newborn to suckle immediately by itself, as occurred in animals that immediately look for his mother's nipple to get food, it turns out this natural instinct may also occur in newborn human infants.

IMD program, according to Indonesia's health department can reduce infant mortality by 22%, how important this program, therefore it is for those who decide to have children, are encouraged to try this IMD program.

As for the steps that can be performed on the IMD program is:

1. In a normal delivery or through the vagina, the baby as soon as possible who have done cutting the umbilical cord is dried as needed, the intention here is not clear amniotic fluid baker layer attached to the baby but just dry the skin without doing pengelapan the palms of the baby.

2. Put this baby in the mother's chest immediately, exactly between the two breasts mother who has prepared for those breastfed by the baby. Here the warmth of the mother's body is the temperature that is ideal for the baby. This is where started to happen a close emotional relationship between mother and baby.

Placing the newborn between the two breast is the beginning of the IMD

3. Let both hands the baby to find its own mother's nipple as the baby is a natural instinct to immediately look for food after a few months in the womb only get food from the umbilical cord in the womb.

4. When the baby's hands began to touch the breast nipple, so when this will occur naturally in the body of the mother to produce milk-producing hormone.

The hand that touches the baby's mother's nipple during IMD

5. Baby's hand had touched the nipple will lead the baby to enter the nipple into his mouth and will be doing is feeding itself.

Interesting is not it? If you are interested to run the IMD program, make sure before you give birth you conduct consultations prior to your birth attendant good obstetrician or midwife who will assist you. For those of you who will perform deliveries via cesarean section operation, this method can still run when you use the technique of local anesthesia through the spine, but some opinion is that the IMD technique in cesarean section deliveries can only run about 50%.

Source:

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1524741/

2. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11507844/Inisiasi-Menyusu-Dini-Dan-Asi-Perannya-Menurunkan-Kematian-Bayi-Dan-Anak24-Jan-08

3. http://repository.usu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/21189/5/Chapter I.pdf

4. http://digilib.unimus.ac.id/files/disk1/113/jtptunimus-gdl-diyahwidya-5613-2-babi.pdf

5. http://www.aafp.org/afp/2001/0915/p981.html