Breast Feeding Information

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Benefits to your Baby    

  • Start breastfeeding as soon as possible, within an hour of birth is preferred, placing your baby skin-to-skin and allowing him/her to find the nipple and latch on

  • Breastfeed your baby 8-12 times a day, usually every 1 ½ to 3 hour

  • Avoid use of pacifiers until breastfeeding is well established

  • Avoid giving any other fluid, such as water, juice, formula

  • Look for signs of hunger and offer the breast for feeding

    • Increased activity and alertness, sucking motions of mouth

  • Do not feed a crying baby, rock them and calm them first. Crying is a late sign of hunger.

Breast Feeding Facts:

  • Formula is expensive!

  • Reduced risk for breast and ovarian cancer

  • Decreased bleeding after birth, including menstrual blood loss

  • Increased rate of weight loss

  • Reduced risk of type 2 Diabetes

  • Enhances bonding with your baby

  • Decreased risk for osteoporosis (bone loss)

  • Decreased risk for Iron-Deficiency Anemia

  • Delays return of period

  • Promotes growth and development

  • Increased resistance to infections

  • Decreased Ear infections

  • Decreased Respiratory Infections

    • Pneumonia

  • Digestive problems

  • Meningitis (swelling around brain)

  • Bacterial infections

  • Decreased rates of chronic disease

  • Asthma

  • Diabetes

  • Childhood Cancer

  • Decreased risk of Obesity

  • Stronger immune system, decreasing risk of becoming sick

  • Decreased risk of urinary tract infection

  • Decreased incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

  • Decreased risk for Necrotizing Entercolitis (death of tissue in small intestine)




Project CABO Annual Fund Raiser

Join us for our second annual fundraiser and silent auction April 22, 2010 at the Laguna Hills Community Center on Alicia Parkway. We are holding this event to directly raise funds for the 2010 year and onward community scholarship program, available to all community members*. The scholarship program is set to come fully online this [...]

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