Breastfeeding Services and Postpartum Care
Good advice for breastfeeding is a good start for life

OUR BREASTFEEDING COUNSELOR ROLE
Our breastfeeding counselor will give you a complete assessment before, after delivery, and during breastfeeding
1 FOR THE WOMEN
- Review the history of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding by exploring all their complications, difficulties, and interventions
- Assess concerns and perceptions about breastfeeding
- Assess your knowledge of the baby’s care and needs
- Assess your knowledge of the baby’s discomfort and constant crying
- Evaluate knowledge and difficulties in monitoring baby’s follow-up care (baby’s weight, height, and diet)
- Examine the breasts for wounds, redness, or pain
- Take charge of the various problems related to pain during breastfeeding (cracks, mycosis, engorgement, mastitis, etc…)

2 FOR THE BABY
- Evaluate how the baby latches on to detect difficulties
- Examine the baby anatomically

THE PERSONALIZED CARE PLAN OF OUR BREASTFEEDING COUNSELOR

1 BEFORE DELIVERY
- Explain how breastfeeding works after the baby is born
- Demystify and explain the failure of breastfeeding in previous deliveries
- Demystify the fear of meeting the needs of many babies
- Demystify the fear of breastfeeding after breast surgery
- Demystifying the fear related to breastfeeding and a health problem
- Explain all the changes in your body during pregnancy and childbirth
- Accompany during pregnancy and childbirth by answering all your questions

2 AFTER DELIVERY
FOR THE MOTHER
- Teach and advise on breastfeeding
- Take charge of postpartum care (Care in case of episiotomy, care of the perineum and of surgical wound)
- Help mothers improve their well-being after giving birth or breastfeeding
- Follow up with the mother’s doctor
- Advise parents, ex: How to suction the baby, learning the baby’s normal breathing, and abnormal breathing (help from the company’s respiratory therapist can be requested when useful)
- Help moms get back to work
FOR THE BABY
- Questions about baby’s discomfort, sleep, and constant crying
- Ask about the baby’s nutrition
- Baby care (bathing, nail clipping, changing, cord care, and genitals care…)