Newborn Weight Loss
Newborn weight loss is a common concern for breastfeeding mothers. This video provides a brief overview of the causes of weight loss in newborn babies and ways to manage it.
How Often to Breastfeed
Learn how often you need to breastfeed your baby in 24 hours and indicators that may require a check-in with your health professional.
Feeding Expressed Colostrum
Learn how to feed your baby hand expressed colostrum with a spoon. A helpful technique sometimes used as an alternative to latching.
Expressing the First Milk
Most mothers of small babies will need to express their milk until their babies are able to feed exclusively from the breast. They should start expressing within an hour of giving birth to establish a good supply of milk, including if they’ve had a caesarean birth. This video shows how to teach a mother to express colostrum, the first milk.
Expressing Colostrum
Learn how to hand express colostrum in the first few hours after your baby's birth.
Express Breastmilk
Expressing breastmilk can relieve breast fullness, soften the breasts, and make it easier for the milk to flow. It is also important to maintain a mother’s milk supply during separation and make milk available for someone else to feed the baby. This video shows how to hand express breastmilk.
Caring for Yourself and Your Baby After Birth
Oriented to mothers, this video provides an overview of important information to care for herself and her baby after birth, including rest, good nutrition, family planning, danger signs in mothers and babies and care of the newborn.