"Infants who are not breastfeeding are particularly vulnerable to infection and hospitalization for severe respiratory illness. Women who deliver should be encouraged to initiate breastfeeding early and feed frequently."
Even if you get the H1N1 virus, the CDC recommends continuing to breastfeed, "If a woman is ill, she should continue breastfeeding and increase feeding frequency." This is because the mother's breast milk already has antibodies to help protect your baby in it. One of the best ways to encourage early and often breastfeeding is close contact between mothers and babies. CDC recommends, "Keep infants and mothers as close together as possible and encourage early and frequent skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their infants." This is the same recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for all healthy newborns.
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It’s alarming to hear lives taken of H1N1 virus. A misconception of h1n1 is that it is directly obtained from pork. Have you read this post about Lechon houses in Philippines? Read it here http://www.filipino-foods.com/filipino-foods/pork-in-philippines-is-as-good-as-ever-despite-flu-scare . Pork is as good as ever despite flu scare.
what about people like myself that can not breastfeed??? No information for them?? 9 months preggers and will not be able to breastfeed.
Can not breastfeed? Unless you have been so as unfortunate as to have had both breasts removed then don’t even consider not breastfeeding newborns this winter!
Lots of people cannot breast feed who have their breasts intact – don’t be freaking silly to think that is the only reason you would be unable to!