The Success Tips of Exclusive Breastfeeding Program

The exclusive breastfeeding program which required to give for 6 months will be found many obstacles. And in order for this program was done successfully, then the husband’s role and support is very influenced. The husband's support can be with the encouragement and material, because when the mothers nursing require the higher additional nutrient. Then the husband must give more the spending quote.

The husband should also maintain a good relationship to the wives psyche condition. Because if the marital relation less harmonious can influence the breastfeeding production becomes not maximal. The wife’s negative thoughts will make the oxytocin reflexes decreased, and triggers the mother’s milk can not get out maximally.

In order to be a full program of exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months, then the husband should be able creating an atmosphere of calm and safe for their wives. For example, a husband can give attention for his wife when nursing and her needs. The husband can also help reduce the wife’s burden with help the household work or helps to calm down the baby when crying before given a drink by his wife.

During the exclusive breastfeeding program, you as a husband can massage your wife’s back with loving or just get her drinks, because the mother that breastfeeding should drink more. You can also pay more attention to your wife to be more calm and comfortable when breastfeeding exclusively to the baby for 6 months.

The husband is also very advised to take care the baby, because based on a research showed, when hungry a baby is happy to be held by his father. Even if the baby is fussy or stress, it will be easier calm when carried by the father. This is probably caused the baby likes to hear his father’s breathing vibrations because the sound is better than the mother’s.

To create a happy family life, you can do the bed-sharing program, that is the baby sleeps between the father and mother so when the baby cries, the father can immediately be picked up him and given to the mother to be breastfed. After that, the husband holds returned the baby in a standing position until the baby burped and fall asleep again. The husband can also help the wife to change the baby’s diaper at night, so formed a work team. By this various supports, then the wife will be successful doing the exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months.

Summary:

• The nursing mothers need the additional nutrients more, so their food menu should be varied,
• The husband’s support for the nursing wife can be in the form of psychological, material and help take care the baby,
• The mother’s milk production can be maximal if the wife’s psychological condition and the nutrient consumption can be completed maximally.