90 Breastfeeding Related Words Every Mom Need To Know.

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A new mom comes across many terms and jargon related to her health, her new born as well as for breastfeeding. While some of the words are self-explanatory and can easily be understood, some might go right over your head! At HerWellness, our endeavour is always to make things simple and easy for you. Here’s a list of 90 words related to breastfeeding that every new mom needs to know. Go ahead, read through and feel wise. 🙂

1. Alternative Feeding Methods: Alternative methods can be used to feed baby if breastfeeding is not possible these include. 1. Cup 2. Palade 3 spoon 4. Finger feed.

2. Areola: A circular dark area of pigmentation around the nipple.

3. Artificial Feeding: Feeding an infant on a breast-milk substitute.

4. Aversive: Breastfeeding refusal because it is associated with an unpleasant stressful or painful experience.

5. Bilirubin: Bilirubin is an orange- yellow pigment, a waste product primarily produced by the normal breakdown of red blood cells. This condition known as neonatal jaundice. About 60% of full-term new-borns and 80% of premature babies get jaundice.

6. Block Feeding: One of the techniques to reduce milk over supply involves changing the pattern of breast usage. Usually, instead of using both the breasts at a feeding, the mother recommended to use one side of the breast for tow regular feeds.

7. Blocked Duct: A milk duct in the breast becoming blocked with thickened milk, so that the milk in that part of the breast does not flow out.

8. Bottle-Feeding: Feeding an infant from a bottle, whatever is in the bottle, including expressed breast milk, water, formula, etc. Introducing bottle before 6 weeks can couse nipple confusion.

9. Breast Pumps: Devices for expressing milk. It can be manual breast pump or electric breast pump.

10. Breast Crawl: A new-born’s instinctto move toward the nipple and suckle.

11. Breastfeeding Support: A group of mothers who help each other to breastfeed. Herwellness breastfeeding support number is +91 78299 31999.

12. Brick Dust Urine: If baby is not getting sufficient amounts of milk, you may notice a “brick dust” residue on the diaper (red, brick dustcolour), due to urate crystals from overconcentrated urine.

13. Clicking: Indicates that baby is repeatedly breaking the seal or suction. This can be one of the reasons for not enough milk transfer.

14. Cluster Feeding / Bunch feeding: A breastfeeding patternwith several feedings close together.

15. Colic: Regular crying, sometimes with signs suggesting abdominal pain, at a certain time of day; the baby is difficult to comfort but otherwise well.

16. Cold Compress: Cloths soaked in cold water to put on the breast.

17. Colostrum: A yellowish breast milk, rich in antibodies and high in protein, produced from the end of pregnancy through the early days of breastfeeding.

18. Cross Cradle Hold: The cross-cradle hold is ideal for early breast-feeding. Gently place your left hand behind your baby’s ears and neck, with your thumb and index finger behind each ear and your palm between baby’s shoulder blades.

19. Complementary Food: Any food, whether manufactured or locally prepared, used as a complement to breast milk or to a breast-milk substitute.

20. Cup-Feeding: Feeding from an open cup without a lid, whatever is in the cup.

21. Demand Feeding: Feeding a baby whenever he shows that he is ready, both day and night. This is also called ‘unrestricted’ or ‘baby-led’ feeding.

22. Distraction During Feeding: A baby’s attention easily taken from the breast by something else, such as a noise. Often see 3- to 5-month-old babies.

23. Dream Feeding: Feeding the baby while they are still dreaming.

24. Engorgement: An uncomfortable fullness of the breasts, experienced at any time during breastfeeding: Most often within the 36 hours after delivery or when moms first wake up in the morning if their babies don’t feed at night

25. Exclusive Pumping: Moms who bottle-feed their expressed breast milk to their babies.

26. Exclusive Breastfeeding: An infant receives only breast milk and no other liquids or solids, not even water, with the exception of drops or syrups consisting of vitamins, mineral supplements or medicines.

27. Expressed Breast Milk: Breast milk, siphoned from the breast by hand or pump, which is used for storage or feeding.

28. Extended Breastfeeding: The act of nursing a child past for more than a year.

29. Failure To Thrive (FTT): is a term used to describe inadequate growth or the inability to maintain growth, usually associated with young child.

30. Fermented Foods: Foods that are soured. For example, yoghurt is fermented milk. These substances can be beneficial and kill pathogens that may contaminate food.

31. Fissure: Break in the skin, sometimes called a ‘crack’.

32. Flat Nipple: A nipple which sticks out less than average.

33. Foremilk & Hindmilk: The watery breast milk that is produced early in a feed. Hindmilk the milk produced at the end of a particular feeding. Hind milk is fat-rich breast milk that is produced later in a feed.

34. Flanged Lips: A sign of effective latch: lips curled outwards while nursing, resembling fish lips.

35. Galactagogues: Foods, medications, or supplements that increase milk supply, such as fenugreek, blessed thistle, alfalfa, or oatmeal.

36. Growth Factors: Substances in breast milk which promote growth and development of the intestine, and which probably help the intestine to recover after an attack of diarrhoea.

37. Growth Spurt: Sudden increased hunger for a few days.

38. GRED Infants, Gastroesophageal reflux: (GER) happens when stomach contents come back up into the esophagus, which can cause regurgitation and spitting up. Wet burps or hiccups, abnormal arching, and failure to gain weight.

39. Hindmilk: The milk produced at the end of a particular feeding. Hind milk is fat-rich breast milk that is produced later in a feed.

40. Intolerance (Of Food): Inability to tolerate a particular food.

41. Inverted Nipples: Nipples that cave inward, rather than protruding fully

42. Jaundice: Yellow Colour of eyes and A common condition, it can occur when babies have a high level of bilirubin,

43. Kangaroo Care: A type of bonding that involves skin-to-skin contact and baby-wearing to stimulate feelings of closeness and well-being.

44. Latch: The way a baby attachesto the nipple.

45. Let-Down: A hormonal reaction to breast stimulation that causes muscles to bring milk into the ducts.

46. Lip Tie: A tight frenulum(thin skin between the lip and the gum) that impedes breastfeeding.

47. Lactation: The process of producing breast milk.

48. Lactation Amenorrhoea Method (LAM): Using the period of amenorrhoea after childbirth as a family planning method.

49. Lactose: The special sugar present in all.

50. Low-Birth-Weight (LBW): Weighing less than 2.5 kg at birth.

51. Liquid Gold: Breast milk

52. Mastitis: An inflammation of the breast tissue (see also infective and non-infective mastitis), usually caused by an infection, often identified by flu-like symptoms and a rash.

53. Mature Milk: The breast milk that is produced a few days after birth.

54. Milk Ejection: Milk flowing from the breast due to the.

55. Milk Blister/Bleb /Nipple Blister:  An open milk duct covered by skin, pain may persist several days or weeks.

56. Milk Expression: Removing milk from the breasts manually or by using a pump.

57. Mixed Feeding: Feeding both breast milk and other foods or liquids.

58. Montgomery’s Glands: Small glands in the areola which secrete an oily liquid.

59. Natural (Passive) Immunity: is the protection a baby inherits from his/her mother.

60. Nipple Shield: A soft silicone cover for the nipple that may help with breastfeeding issues.

61. Nipple confusion: A term sometimes used to describe the way babies who have fed from a bottle may find it difficult to suckle effectively from a breast.

62. Nipple Sucking: When a baby takes only the nipple into his mouth, so that he cannot suckle effectively.

63. Non-Infective Mastitis: Mastitis due to milk leaking out of the alveoli and back into the breast tissues, with no bacterial.

64. Overactive Let-Down: A forceful ejection of milk from the breasts during feeding that may cause issues while nursing.

65. Oxytocin & Prolactin: The hormones responsible for milk production.

66. Oxytocin Reflex: Which is stimulated in response to the sight, touch or sound of the baby.

67. Pre-Feeding and Post-Feeding Weights: A method used to calculate how much milk has been consumed in a feeding session

68. Prelacteal Feeds: Artificial feeds given before breastfeeding is established.

69. Premature, Preterm: Born before 37 weeks gestation.

70. Prolactin: The hormone which makes the breasts produce milk.

71. Protractile: Used to describe a nipple which is easy to stretch out.

72. Plugged Ducts /Clogged Ducts /Milk Stasis: A backup in a milk duct resulting from milk being produced faster than it is expressed.

73. Relactation: Re-establishing breastfeeding after a mother has stopped, whether in the recent or distant past.

74. Restricted Breastfeeds: When the frequency or length of breastfeeds is limited in any way.

75. Retained Placenta: A small piece of the placenta remaining in the uterus after delivery.

76. Rooming-In: A baby staying in the same room as his.

77. Reverse-Cycling: A period when a baby nurse more at night than during the day.

78. Rooting: An active sign of hungerevident as a baby moves the head around looking for a nipple to latch on to.

79. Rubber Teat: The part of a feeding bottle from which a baby sucks.

80. Scissor Hold: Holding the breast between the index and middle fingers while the baby is feeding.

81. Self-Weaning: A baby more than one year old deciding by himself to stop breastfeeding.

82. Sensory Impulses: Messages in nerves which are responsible for feeling.

83. Skin-To-Skin contact: A mother holding her naked baby against her own skin.

84. Sore Nipples: Pain in the nipple and areola when the baby feeds.

85. Sucking: Using negative pressure to take something into the mouth. The action by which a baby removes milk from the breast.

86. Sucking Reflex: The baby automatically sucks something that touches his palate.

87. Supplements: Drinks or artificial feeds given in addition to breast milk

88. Thrush: A yeast infection causing white patches on an infant’s tongue and mouth, can also cause pain in the mother’s breasts or nipples.

89. Tongue Tie: A condition where the lingual frenulum (Tissue connecting the tongue to the floor of the mouth) is short and tight, restricting tongue movement and breastfeeding ability.

90. Young Child: A person from the age of more than 12 months up to the age of 3 years (36 months).