Understanding PREGNANCY TO PARENTING

Breastfeeding & Diaper Log

Keeping a daily log of your baby’s feedings, wet diapers, and bowel movements can help you tell that your
breastfeeding is going well. Compare your baby’s patterns with the breastfeeding and diaper guidelines below
to know whether you should seek help with breastfeeding.
How to use the chart:
• Use the “Feeding” column to track the number of feeds in a 24-hour period.
• Enter the date and time each feeding started.
• Check the box to indicate which breast each feeding started on.
• Each time your baby has a wet and/or dirty diaper, check a “pee” and/or “poop” box.
• Use the “Notes” section to record any concerns or special things that happened during that feeding.

Breastfeeding and diaper guidelines:

• Breastfeed every time your baby show signs of hunger (e.g., making sucking motions with mouth, bringing
hand to mouth, fidgeting).
• Newborn babies should breastfeed about 8-12 times every 24 hours.
• By Day 5, your breastfed baby should have at least 4 loose, yellow, seedy stools the size of a quarter or larger
each day.
• By Day 5, newborns should have at least 6 wet diapers with pale yellow urine each day.
• Call your baby’s healthcare provider if your baby is not eating enough or is not having the appropriate
number of wet or dirty diapers each day.

Sample:

Feeding/ Started on Diaper

Date Time Notes
Day Changes
Left Right
1 8/21/16 2:45 am Pee Poop Hand expressed after feeding

2 “ 4:30 am Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop
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Feeding/ Started on Diaper

Date Time Notes
Day Changes
Left Right

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop

Pee Poop
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Parent Handout

Your Guide to a Healthy Start

Understanding Breastfeeding Quiz

Are you a breastfeeding novice or a breastfeeding know-it-all? Take a few minutes to test your knowledge.

1. When do women begin making milk? 5. The following helps get breastfeeding off to a
A. During pregnancy good start, except:

B. Right before the moment of birth A. Rooming-in at the hospital

C. After leaving the hospital B. Immediate skin-to-skin contact

D. Women are able to make milk all the time C. Feeding your baby only breastmilk, nothing
else
2. Breastfeeding is ideal for both mother and D. Knowing the difference between a cradle
baby for the following reasons, except: and cross-cradle position
A. Baby has fewer ear and respiratory infections 6. How many times should you feed your baby
B. Mother’s risk of some cancers and heart every 24 hours?
disease is reduced A. 8 to 12
C. The risk of Sudden Infant Death Sydrome B. 2 to 4
(SIDS) is reduced
C. 6 to 8
D. It prevents the hormone oxytocin from being
released D. 1 to 3

3. What is a good general way to describe the 7. What is a late hunger cue?
process of milk production? A. Fidgeting
A. You make milk based on how much your B. Sticking his tongue out
baby takes
C. Bringing his hand to his mouth
B. Your body makes an abundance of milk from
the moment of birth so your baby has plenty D. Crying
from the beginning 8. What should you do if your baby is too sleepy
C. When your milk“comes in”, your baby will to eat and not eating as often as she should?
have as much as he needs A. Let her sleep
D. None of the above B. Gently stimulate her to wake and encourage
her to eat
4. What breastfeeding position is more helpful for
C. Call the doctor
mothers who’ve had a cesarean birth?
D. Pump your milk until she wakes up
A. The cross-cradle hold
B. The cradle hold
C. The football hold
D. The laid-back position

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9. If your baby is jaundiced, it’s recommended 13. Expressing your milk can help in the following
that you manage it in the following ways, ways, except:
except: A. To increase your milk supply
A. Contact your baby’s healthcare provider B. To prevent breast engorgement
B. Make sure your baby is feeding effectively C. To collect milk for when you aren’t available
and often enough
D. So your baby can learn how to bottle-feed in
C. Do nothing until two weeks have passed the first few days of life
D. If your breasts become engorged, pump your
milk after feedings 14. A breastfeeding mother should be careful of
the following substances, except:
10. How many stools should an exclusively
A. Over-the-counter and prescription
breastfed baby have by Day 4?
medications
A. 3 or more
B. Medical marijuana
B. 4 or more
C. Onions and garlic
C. 1 or more
D. Alcohol
D. Any number is okay
15. The following are to be expected with
11. If you think you have mastitis, you should do, breastfeeding, except:
the following, except:
A. Being able to breastfeed away from home
A. Call your healthcare provider
B. Losing your pregnancy weight in the first
B. Stop breastfeeding couple of weeks
C. Take the full course of any prescribed C. Your menstrual cycle could begin at any time
antibiotics
D. Being able to meet all of your baby’s
D. Rest and drink plenty of fluids nutritional needs
12. What are some ways to help you manage
Answer Key
engorgement before a feeding?
1. A 8. B
A. Express some milk before a feeding to soften 2. D 9. C
your breasts 3. A 10. B
B. Apply ice packs to your breasts before a 4. C 11. B
feeding 5. D 12. A
C. Use a nipple shield to help your baby to latch 6.
A 13. D
on to a full breast 7. D 14. C
15. B
D. Do nothing and wait for your breasts to
produce less milk

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