CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

Mother that pass the stages of pregnancy and later delivered they are generally called the breastfeeding woman or nursing mothers. In the history of health sciences or many developing countries breastfeeding mothers are giving much attention to their health needs, today more than ever before. Breastfeeding mothers has become a focus for an organized medical social welfare activities (gynecological guide for life 2003).

Breastfeeding is the most valuable food for a baby. It is unfortunate however that some mother are not fully breastfeeding their babies for reasons other than breastfeeding problem. This practice has led to an increase in babies death due to diarrhea, malnutrition vomiting etc.

Human breast milk is the healthiest form of milk for babies. Breastfeeding promote health and help to prevent diseases, artificial feeding is associated with more death from the infant in both developing and developed countries there are quiet a few practical advantages to breastfeeding as well. The earlier family can appreciate for  example, human milk is much less expensive than formal. During nursing you will need, at most, an extra 400 to 500 calories daily to produce sufficient milk for your baby.

Mother have to be taught how to hold their baby while breast-feeding them, this is essential that the babies is attached to the breast properly as it is the only option amount of milk in every feed.

It essential that every new mother is explained the correct position by the nurse or a skill birth attendant when she feed her baby for the first time, mother can feed their children in even breastfeed her child in a lying down position but the way that she holds the baby can also variable.

One such position is the cradle hold in which the mother, she is feeding at that time the baby abdomen is turned towards the mother the upper arm part of the baby’s body is supported by the mother’s hand. The neck is kept slightly extended so that the baby chin can touch the breast with her opposite hand with four finger below and thumb above, whenever mother want to breastfeed their baby should always supported their head, because baby’s eustanchia tube is shorter and very wide whenever mothers are breast feeding their babies without supporting the head there is tendency the breast milk to enter the eustanchia tube which can cause otitis media.

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