Bebe Confort Breastfeeding - Manual (Page 5)

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What diet during breastfeeding?
D
iet
Breastfeeding requires a lot of energy. This is why you need to keep a healthy diet (dairy products for calcium and fish for iodine are
specially important) and drink the usual amount of water recommended. Always keep a glass of water near you while breastfeeding.
M
edecine
Polluting and toxic products and drugs are best avoided. As for the rest, you can check the list of medicines compatible with breastfee-
ding, published by the WHO or contact your doctor if you have any doubt.
T
obacco et
A
lcohol are highly prohibited. You can drink alcohol in very small quantities and just after breastfeeding in order
to be fully gone for the next feeding; of course the best is to not consume any alcohol at all. Nicotine is directly absorbed by breast milk
every time you breastfeed it’s just as your baby smoked twice as much as you. This can have irreversible consequences on your baby like
allergies or a higher risk of cancer. However, if you don’t want or can’t quit smoking, try to cut down cigarettes as much as possible and
wait 2 hours after smoking to breastfeed your baby again.
When you are about to use the milk previously stored, take it
out of the fridge or the freezer. To unfreeze it, put the milk in
the fridge for a few hours then leave it at the room temperature.
Warm it if you want. For an optimal heat distribution, shake the
bottle between your hands. Once the milk is unfrozen, you can’t
re-freeze it. Avoid mixing hot milk with cold milk that has been
previously frozen in order to keep cold the milk that has already
been stored. It is preferable to cool down the milk that has just been
pumped before adding it to milk previously stored.
To heat the milk, it is preferable to use a bottle warmer or a hot water bath
rather than using a microwave that can burn or degrade the nutritional qualities
of the milk.
If you want to keep milk that you previously pumped, make sure it has been sterilized.
When you feed your baby with pumped milk, throw any leftover away.
Bébé Confort’s milk conservation products
Be careful, never interrupt the cold chain: always carry your milk in a cooler or in a isotherm bag.
Bébé Confort’s milk preparation and
conservation products
Usage
Electric breast pump To breast pump while your hands are free for maximum
comfort and discretion
Manual breast pump To easily and comfortably pump your milk in or out of home
Conservation bags
Sealed and compact solution to store your milk: write the
date your milk has been pumped and put the storage bag in
the fridge or freezer to use it later on.
Conservation bottles
Store your breast milk in the fridge or the freezer.
The milk can be heated in a hot water bath or with a bottle
warmer. With a teat, this conservation bottle becomes a
baby bottle.
Storing expressed breast milk
Recommendations
Storage time
at room
temperature
(20°C)
Storage time in
a refrigerator*
Storage time
in a freezer
compartment
Storage time
in a freezer
Freshly
expressed milk
6-10 hours 3-4 days at 4°C 2 weeks at -16°C Around 6
months at -18°C
Defrosted milk
1 hour 10 hours
at + 4°C
Do not refreeze once
defrosted
Do not refreeze once
defrosted
* Do not store milk in your fridge door (the temperature is not as cold as in the interior of the fridge)