Breastfeeding in difficult circumstances

Question 1

When does suck reflex begin?

Answer 1

34 weeks

Question 2

What solves women’s worry of if they’ll have milk?

Answer 2

Lactogenesis 2 happens to everyone that delivers as a response to the reduction in progesterone

Question 3

Preemies are usually kept in SCBU until…?

Answer 3

Due date

Question 4

How can the conditioned response help women separated from their babies

Answer 4

Let-down reflex occurs just by the sound of baby’s cry

Use picture/video of baby, swap cloth

Question 5

What do pre-eclamptic women’s placentas look like?

Answer 5

Infarcts (dead tissue), gritty- shows lack of blood supply to baby, therefore unable to lay down brown fat stores and struggles to feed

Question 6

What does formula milk do to the gut?

Answer 6

Makes it more susceptible to infection
Donor milk= pasteurised therefore not as nutritious as mother’s
Mother’s milk has similar genetic makeup therefore reinforcing genes

Question 7

Oxytocin can be influenced by…?

Answer 7

Inhibition (stress, anxiety. tense)- therefore mother must be relaxed