What if my baby is born early or has special problems?
Mother-friendly places and people will encourage mothers and families to touch, hold, breastfeed, and care for their babies as much as they can. They will encourage this even if your baby is born early or has a medical problem at birth. (However, there may be a special medical reason you shouldn’t hold and care for your baby.) 9. Ask, Do you circumcise baby boys? Medical research does not show a need to circumcise baby boys. It is painful and risky. Mother-friendly birth places discourage circumcision unless it is for religious reasons. 10. Ask, How do you help mothers who want to breastfeed? The World Health Organization made this list of ways birth services support breastfeeding. They tell all pregnant mothers why and how to breastfeed. They help you start breastfeeding within 1 hour after your baby is born. They show you how to breastfeed. And they show you how to keep your milk coming in even if you have to be away from your baby for work or other reasons. Newborns should have only
” Mother-friendly places and people will encourage mothers and families to touch, hold, breastfeed, and care for their babies as much as they can. They will encourage this even if your baby is born early or has a medical problem at birth. (However, there may be a special medical reason you shouldn’t hold and care for your baby.) 9. Ask, “Do you circumcise baby boys?” Medical research does not show a need to circumcise baby boys. It is painful and risky. Mother-friendly birth places discourage circumcision unless it is for religious reasons. 10. Ask, “How do you help mothers who want to breastfeed?” The World Health Organization made this list of ways birth services support breastfeeding. They tell all pregnant mothers why and how to breastfeed. They help you start breastfeeding within 1 hour after your baby is born. They show you how to breastfeed. And they show you how to keep your milk coming in even if you have to be away from your baby for work or other reasons. Newborns should hav
Several years of work produced this well-worded, simple document for consumers. Now it is up to the coalition member organizations such as Lamaze International to get the document into the hands of members and encourage the members to put it into the hands of women early in their pregnancy or before their pregnancy.
