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Breastfeeding Difficulties - Baby
Detailed information on breastfeeding difficulties of the baby, including ineffective latch-on, ineffective sucking, slow infant weight gain, poor infant weight gain, mismanaged breastfeeding, over-active breast milk let down
Learn MoreBreastfeeding Difficulties - Mother
Detailed information on breastfeeding difficulties of the mother, including sore nipples, low breast milk production, flat nipples, plugged milk ducts, and mastitis
Learn MoreBreastfeeding the High-Risk Newborn
Detailed information on breastfeeding the high-risk newborn
Learn MoreBreastfeeding When Returning to Work
Helpful advice on how to maintain your milk production when going back to work.
Learn MoreBreastfeeding Your Baby
Click on the links below to learn more about this topic. Breast Milk is the Best Milk Getting Started How Milk is Made Effective Breastfeeding Effective Sucking Breastfeeding Difficulties - Mother Sore Nipples Insufficient or Delayed Milk Production Low Milk Production Flat or Inverted Nipples
Learn MoreBreastfeeding Your High-Risk Baby
Learning to breastfeed effectively is a process that may take days or weeks for premature and many other high-risk babies. But you and your baby can become a breastfeeding team if you are patient and persistent.
Learn MoreBreastfeeding Your Premature Baby
Breastfeeding your premature infant is not only possible, it's the best thing for your baby.
Learn MoreBreastfeeding: Getting Started
The first weeks of breastfeeding should be considered a learning period for both you and your baby. Here's what you need to know.
Learn MoreBreastfeeding: Returning to Work
It's important to give yourself enough time to practice pumping and get your body used to pumping before you return to work. Read on for some helpful tips.
Learn MoreBreastmilk Is Best
Your milk contains just the right balance of nutrients in a form most easily used by your baby's immature body systems.
Learn MoreBreastmilk: Pumping, Collecting, Storing
"Fresh breastmilk" contains the most active anti-infective properties. Refrigerated breastmilk has fewer anti-infective properties than fresh milk and frozen breastmilk has the least.
Learn MoreBreathing Problems
If you listen closely, you'll notice that your baby's breathing isn't like yours. Babies breathe much more frequently and with different patterns than adults. Here's how to recognize normal breathing in your infant - and how to spot signs of respiratory distress.
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Helping Hands Patient Education Materials
Written and illustrated by medical, nursing and allied health professionals at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Helping Hand instructions are intended as a supplement to verbal instructions provided by a medical professional. The information is periodically reviewed and revised to reflect our current practice. However, Nationwide Children's Hospital is not responsible for any consequences resulting from the use or misuse of the information in the Helping Hands.