Below are some tips and suggestions to help you successfully breastfeed:

• Start early – the first breastfeeding within the first hour “golden hour” of life improves infant survival and prolongs the duration of exclusive breastfeeding.
• WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months of age. WHO promotes Breastfeeding up to at least 2 years of age.
• Breastfeeding should take place, as often as the child needs, day and night.
• Even preterms should be breastfed, it should be done to preterms as young as 27 weeks (<1000g).

We have a lactation consulting clinic for those mothers who have difficulties while breastfeeding their babies.