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Assessing Successful Breastfeeding
Assessing Successful Breastfeeding
Sleepy baby
1.3.41 Women should be advised that skin-to-skin contact or massaging a baby's feet
should be used to wake the baby. The baby's general health should be
assessed if there is no improvement. [2006]
Formula feeding
1.3.42 All parents and carers who are giving their babies formula feed should be
offered appropriate and tailored advice on formula feeding to ensure this is
undertaken as safely as possible, in order to enhance infant development and
health, and fulfil nutritional needs. [2006]
1.3.43 A woman who wishes to feed her baby formula milk should be taught how to
make feeds using correct, measured quantities of formula, as based on the
manufacturer's instructions, and how to clean and sterilise bottles and teats
and how to store formula milk[ ]. [2006]
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1.3.44 Parents and family members should be advised that milk, either expressed
milk or formula should not be warmed in a microwave. [2006]
1.3.45 Breastfeeding women who want information on how to prepare formula feeds
should be advised on how to do this. [2006]