Nursing For Comfort

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Nursing for comfort. Knowing it s ok to nurse for comfort makes breastfeeding easier adds friesen stoesz. It s okay to use a dummy after this period if the constant comfort nursing becomes a little too much for you. Aikens 1908 proposed that nothing concerning the comfort of the patient was small enough to ignore.

As long as you and your child are happy and enjoy your nursing relationship there is no reason that you cannot nurse for comfort. When to worry about frequent breastfeeding. With these concepts in mind nurses formulate a comfort care plan with the goal of enhancing comfort over a measurement of baseline comfort part one.

The breast was the first pacifier and the one that all others are modeled after so don t be afraid to allow baby to use it in this way. Try to avoid the use of a soother for the first six weeks. Babies will still get a little milk while they are comfort nursing and it s a great mothering tool.

If baby were not comfort nursing he would need to be sucking on his hands or on a pacifier. There are studies that show that comfort nursing is healthy for your child too. To add comfort to the patient they serve as non pharmacological methods for reducing pain promoting comfort to help relieve after 4 hours of nursing interventions goal met.

Of the 14 theoretical studies six were concept analyses 7 9 29 80 81 two utilized previous concept analyses to develop a comfort taxonomy and process for operationalizing comfort two described the development of comfort theory 83 84 and one explored historical changes in the role of comfort in nursing care. The nursing care to be given to the patient. It will not spoil your child and there is no evidence that comfort nursing is harmful or that it will cause any negative psychological issues in older children.

Comfort nursing is also sometimes called non nutritive sucking. Using it can sometimes result in a baby drinking less at the breast which could cause a low milk supply. Comfort nursing is a natural part of breastfeeding.