Journal of Women's Health Care
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-0420
ISSN: 2167-0420
Rania Hosny Tomerak
Cairo University, Egypt
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Womens Health Care
Misconceptions run as an ice ball among people. Regarding breastfeeding, misconceptions are widespread and the mother receives a lot of confusing information from her family, friends, nurses and even paediatricians. Breastfeeding is an easy come, easy go process. It can go by one false advice, depriving the mother and her baby from the benefits of breastfeeding. In this presentation, all the common misconceptions about breastfeeding among mothers and paediatricians will be troubleshooted. Malpractice among paediatricians and obstetricians is also discussed and corrected e.g., basic advices to breastfeed the healthy newborn, management of insufficient weight gain in a breastfed baby, management of breast infections, nutritional advices to the mothers, breastfeeding guidelines of the incubated baby. Despite that all these misconceptions can easily drive the mother to terminate breastfeeding, it can be easily avoided and this is the aim of this presentation.
Email: raniatomerak@yahoo.com