Breastfeeding Vs Co-Sleep

Having a baby and being flexible is really important when it comes to bottle feeding and breastfeeding. Bottle feeding makes this a little harder because of heating to the bottle, measuring, and sometimes trying to find a bottle. Breastfeeding make this a little easier because if you pump milk the night before, you can have up to three bottles for in the refrigerator. Sometimes if you do not have any milk in a bottle, one can also just let the baby breastfeed by sucking on the nipple. Serena Meyer and Ryan Teglene explain in their article

breastfeed agree that they feel a closer bond with their children after breastfeeding and are able to better understand their child’s wants (Newman and Pitman 14). In The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that breastfeeding can reduce risk of postpartum depression, a condition that affects 13 percent of mothers, causing them to be upset and even angry at their child for crying, as well as other serious symptoms that can affect the mother’s mental state (3). They also found that a

In 1997, anthropologist James Mckenna and his colleagues conducted a study in a sleep laboratory at the University of California's Irvine School of Medicine. The study was to observed thirty-five nursing mother- infant pair sleeping together as well as apart for three consecutive nights. The infants were between eleven to fifteen weeks old. Twenty of the infants had been co sleeping since birth and the other fifteen had been independent sleepers. To observe they used many tools such as polygraph to record mother and infants heart rate, breathing rhythms, body temperature, the nursing cycles and even monitored their brain waves all of this along with watching their test subjects simultaneously on an infrared video monitor. What they found was quite unique, the infant and mother were highly responsive to each other and their movements. The infant and mother changed position of sleeping to face each other. They wake more frequently to nurse, and about twice as much as an independent sleeper and nurse three times longer but still get more sleep co sleeping than independent sleepers,

Your family is expecting a newborn baby within the next couple of months. This event in someone’s life will change their lives forever and can be a very exciting and exhausting change. Although you may be excited and impatient for the baby’s arrival, this event can cause a lot of stress on the family. While your lives are completely changing; there are things you need to do to prepare yourself and there are many important decisions that need to be made. Decisions need to be made regarding what you are going to name the baby, where you will deliver, how you will give birth, how you will feed your new baby, and the list continues to go on. I am expecting a baby in five months and the toughest

In chapter three we discuss the relative benefits of Breastfeeding vs. Bottle-feeding (Strahan, Dixon, & Banks, 2010). Within the content Banks, writes “Breastfeeding is not without its drawbacks, however. In addition to the initial social awkwardness (whether real or imagined) that may accompany breastfeeding mothers in public…” (p. 51). Why do you suppose it is considerably less taboo to expose Mainstream-America to images such as this across all genera of media while breastfeeding remains to be a controversial topic? Do you feel the momentum behind media in this genera is indicative of the way women are viewed in our culture and internally effects our choices whether to breastfeed regardless of the nutritional benefits?

Becoming a mother is an amazing life event. Woman instinctively want to protect and provide for others but as mothers, they up their game because that is their precious little human they created and grew for 9 months in their bodies. Mothers to be carefully choose and plan out every little detail over the next 9 months. Expecting mothers give up some vices like coffee, caffeine, and alcohol. They pick up new healthier eating habits and baby proof the house. Buy the safest crib and car seats. Read all the reviews on which diapers are best quality. All because they want the best for their precious little bundle of joy. How they choose to feed the baby is no different. While breastfeeding can be time consuming; the minimal cost, ease of convenience and added health benefits are why breastfeeding is the best choice for mom and baby.

At 7 months pregnant, Susan is attempting to make the choice to breastfeed or bottle feed her child. This alone is a difficult decision; however, it can become even more problematic when your support system, the mother-in-law, is showing signs of opposition, especially if that individual will be the primary care giver for the child while the mother is working. To make the situation that much more strenuous, the mother-in-law would like to introduce rice cereal into the formula of an infant to improve sleep. From the family’s perspective, the primary issue is whether the mother should breastfeed or bottle feed the baby. However, I feel that the nurse’s primary goal should be to educate the patient and family on the benefits and disadvantages of both breastfeeding and bottle feeding, as well as the adverse reactions that could occur if solid foods are introduced too early. The mother should feel empowered to make the decision of how she will feed her child and the

The old theory that the C-section interfere with breastfeeding and bonding was dismissed by new research that revealed that bonding is a long-term process which is not affected by the method of delivery.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both breastfeeding and formula feeding. Some things to consider when deciding which to choose are: cost, convenience, nutrition, and the health benefits to both the baby and to the mother.

“Sleeping while on duty” or “sleeping on the job” are terms that describe a worker falling asleep while working at an occupation (Fallis, McMillan, & Edwards, 2011). In the United States certain higher risk jobs involving security, safety, or health of others (such as nursing), the penalty for being caught sleeping on the job can range from disciplinary action to immediate termination of employment (Fallis, McMillan, & Edwards, 2011).

Making the decision to become parents is one of the biggest, most important decisions a couple will make as a unit.

Statistical Product and Service Solutions for Windows (SPSS) 12.0 software package and SAS 8.0 software. SPSS 12.0 was used for all statistical analysis except linear regression which used SAS 8.0.

Another factor that may have played important role is physical and social interaction of the mother and the child while breastfeeding (Kramer, 2008). An article from Scientific American, written by R. Douglas Fields, argued that it is not the chemicals in the breast milk that affects the brain development but perhaps it is the bonding time that makes an impact (2011). According to Tonse Raju, author of Breastfeeding is a Dynamic Biological Process-Not Simply a Meal at the Breast, “An infant suckling at his or her mother’s breast is not simply receiving a meal, but is intensely engaged in a dynamic, bidirectional, biological dialogue.” The infant’s cognitive abilities are being enhanced by the nurturing interaction that takes place during the

     Finally, sleep is lost and never will be regained. During the first year of a baby’s life, parents, especially mothers, lose 700 or more hours of sleep. That is a lot. No wonder parents look like a walking zombie. When babies do sleep through the night, parents still wake up to check on them to make sure that they are comfortable and everything is all right. Unfortunately, babies aren’t the only cause for loss of sleep. Teenagers are to. They go out and stay

A convenience sample design was used to individually interview 81 mothers, aged 18-49, who were HIV positive and who breastfed their babies for 0-6 months. Demographic information, such as education level and place of residence, was collected in the interviews. Exclusive breastfeeding knowledge and practice was evaluated using questionnaires and scales. The study was able to be conducted with signed consent of each participant, along with permission from Zimbabwe Research Council and Chirumanzi District Medical Officer. The independent variable in this study was the knowledge women had about breastfeeding, and the dependent variable was whether or not they breastfed their babies.