Breastfeeding Charter Breastfeeding is ideal for your baby

Breastfeeding Charter
Breastfeeding is ideal for your baby
To help best support you, we commit ourselves to :
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informing and helping you thanks to an expert team in breastfeeding, starting during the antenatal
consultations and throughout your whole pregnancy as well as during the beginning of breastfeeding.
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respecting and supporting the first «magic» moments with your baby in the delivery room. (We suggest
you breastfeed your baby in the first hour after birth for this reassures him/her, even if you do not intend
to breastfeed afterwards).
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limiting mother/baby separation *.
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respecting your choice of feeding.
To help assist with breastfeeding, we advise you to:
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breastfeed at your baby’s request.
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only give him/her the mother’s milk, avoid bottle-feeding, artificial milk, water or «téterelles» which are
likely to complicate breastfeeding.
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not to use a pacifier during the first several days (its’ use can decrease the number of feedings and
therefore complicate the beginning of breastfeeding).
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provide yourself with a calm environment.
Do you know that ?
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newborn babies generally tend to drink only small quantities during the first 48 hours, then much
more the following days (usually 8 to 15 times per day, especially during the night).
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newborn babies are often awake in the evenings and in the middle of the night: they then want to be
reassured by being cuddled or by being breastfed. It doesn’t always mean they are hungry.
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If your baby cries, it may only be because he/she wants reassurance: your voice, your odor, the softness
of your breast help. Do not hesitate to cuddle him/her !
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When starting to breastfeed, it is better to offer the breast to your baby when he/she seems to want to
drink (he/she opens his/her mouth and usually show sucking movements) but before he/she cries.
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when leaving the maternity ward, we remain available to help with breastfeeding:
midwife postnatal consultations at our hospital: 025553508
You may also contact:
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Infor allaitement: 02 2429933 http://www.infor-allaitement.be
Leche League: 02 2181530
BrusselsChilbirth Trust: 02 7213928
Borstvoeding : 03 6530341
Advised Readings:
- L’allaitement, de la naissance au sevrage - Marie Thirion - Albin Michel,2004
- L’allaitement de mon enfant - Marie Dominique Linder et Catherine Maupas Hachette Pratique
* If your child has to stay in the neonatal service, the nurses will help you to
express your milk, in the first 3 to 6 hours after birth, and then 6 to 8 times per
day, preferably next to your baby (it is more stimulating).
Hospital Erasme
Department of Perinatology