GROUP ANTENATAL COUNSELING SESSIONS
This session is for parents who want to prepare themselves for breastfeeding their baby before the baby arrives. Once the baby is delivered, parents often feel overwhelmed with all that needs to be done. The initial few days are very crucial as mother has to deal with her own recovery and feed her mini human simultaneously. It becomes difficult to acquire information and skills during this period. Hence it is always better to prepare beforehand.
In these sessions, Dr Mubaraka will go through these basic topics with the group.
- What is exclusive breastfeeding? How long should it be done?
- Benefits of breastfeeding
- How soon should breastfeeding begin after delivery and how?
- How to latch your baby correctly
- Different breastfeeding positions
- How to identify a deep latch from a shallow latch
- How frequently and for how long to feed the baby
- Expected weight gain
- Basic remedies for cracked nipples, breast engorgement, plugged duct, nipple blebs.
We invite both the parents to be a part of this session. And if you can bring the baby’s grandparents along, it will be the icing on the cake! Because we know you can use all the hands available for help and dadimaas’ and nanimaas’ are the biggest source of support!