How Can Parents Manage Night-Time Breastfeeding in Young Infants?

Bedsharing with infants is linked to increased duration of breastfeeding, according to the night-time feeding guidelines.

New guidelines to aid new mothers manage breastfeeding at night-time have been proposed by The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM). The new clinical protocol is published in the peer-reviewed journal Breastfeeding Medicine.

The //Best Practices for Managing Night-Time Breastfeeding in Young Infants

Deena Zimmerman, MD, MPH, IBCLC from the Israel Ministry of Health, and coauthors, representing the ABM, emphasize how parents can get more sleep while Breastfeeding by emphasizing the importance of mothers sleeping close to their babies and taking measures to minimize the need to get up at night.

However, parents need to understand the need for responsive feeding and to be supported in how to manage their needs together with those of their child.

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‘The new night-time breastfeeding guidelines encourage the practice of “responsive” feeding, where breastfeeding is intended according to physiological needs of the infant.’

Sleep location is vital to feeding frequency. A growing body of anthropological research provides evidence that proximate mother-infant sleep combined with side-lying breastfeeding (“breastsleeping”) constitutes the human evolutionary norm.

Source-Eurekalert

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