Adopted child and his lactation

There would be a desire, there will be a skill. Yes, you can feed your adopted child with breast: this requires large doses of dedication, several special adaptations and the help of a professional. Martha is suckling our adopted daughter, Lauren, while writing this book. We counseled many mothers who successfully nursed their adopted children using a technique known as induced, or artificially induced, lactation. Here's what it takes:

• Look for advice and support from mothers who have successfully nursed their adopted children. You can find such a mother through your breastfeeding consultant or through La Leche Leaguea, or ask your pediatrician for the names of such mothers.

• Contact a breastfeeding consultant as soon as you learn that you will have a baby. The ideal situation is when you found out about this before the baby was born. Preparation for the month is best, but is not absolutely mandatory.

• This is what you need: rent an electric breast pump, preferably with a dual system, and stimulate breast sucking, using a breast pump as often as you would feed a newborn, about every two to three hours. Your

breastfeeding consultant will show you how to use the breast pump and develop a schedule. You will also need an extra power system.(One of our supervised adoption of the baby mother felt at the time of breastfeeding was so uncertain and used the supplementary feeding system so often that she almost rubbed it to the holes.) You may have a few drops of clear or matte liquid, and then really small amounts of milk stillbefore you get a baby, especially if you have been breastfeeding earlier or recently. Milk production is a very individual system, depending on the individual level of content in the body responsible for the production of milk hormones.(It not depends on your reproductive hormones.)

• Choose a pediatrician with experience in counseling mothers who breastfeed infants.

• If possible, arrange to be present at the birth of the child so that the child can begin to contact you immediately. In this case, your child will know from the very beginning who it belongs to. You, the mother of the child, will be the first to feed your child.(See how to make a plan for delivery.)

• While the child is in the hospital, try to be present with so many feedings, how many

you can. With the help of a breastfeeding specialist, start feeding your baby with an artificial mixture, applying to your breast and using a supplementer( supplementary feeding system).If you can not attend all the feedings( and very few mothers can), ask the nurses to use the feeding method from the syringe from the finger or use the supplemental feeding system to feed from the finger. Try to avoid bottle-feeding in the first days and weeks of the child's life, while the child is learning to take your breasts. This method of feeding takes no more time than feeding from a bottle.

• Remember, the production of milk stimulates the frequency of sucking. Frequent sucking your breasts causes your milk production system to turn on. Most mothers start to produce some milk within three to four weeks.(In addition to expressing and using the soup-tribe, wear the baby as much as possible, sleep with the baby, and massage your baby.) All these methods, which provide just the closeness to the baby, also increase the production of milk.)

• Do not get hung up on how soonyou will have milk and how much. Even after the milk appears, do not put any special hopes on your milk. The amount of milk you produce is not the ultimate goal. The main

advantage of breastfeeding the foster child is close contact, which is established by breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding is ideal for foster children, but is also beneficial for mothers. Sucking your baby's breast causes an influx of your maternal hormones, which give an additional boost to the formation of your attachment to your child. When breastfeeding a foster child, you give the best stimulus to the development of the child, and the child gives the best push to you, the mother.