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Select the answer that best represents your years of experience in the provision of Maternal Child Health Care

If your hospital is in the State of Maryland, select the Maryland county where your hospital is located and then select the hospital. If your hospital is not in the State of Maryland, then skip to the next question.

County

Hospital

If your hospital is not located in the State of Maryland, write in the your hospital and the county and state where it is located.

Hospital

County

State

The following questions relate to Module 10 - Infants and Mothers with Special Needs. After viewing the module, answer these questions to the best of your ability.

The following nutritional guidelines are true for the breastfeeding mother:

She must have dairy in her diet
An additional 500 calories a day is required to support breastfeeding
The type of fat in the diet does not affect the components of breastmilk
Prenatal vitamins are not necessary if the mother has a healthy diet

Medication taken during the postpartum period:

will always be safe if it is "over the counter"
has many factors that influence whether or not it will pass into breast milk and affect the baby
will affect the baby, so mothers should be advised to pump and dump while taking the medication
Will not affect the baby, so mothers should be advised to continue to breastfeed

The following education advice would assist in promoting breastfeeding for a mother of a preterm, low birth weight infant who is separated from her newborn:

Initiate pumping and hand expression within 12 hours of delivery
Pump on a strict schedule of every 3 hours
Use a hospital-grade pump
Single or double pumping is equally effective

If a newborn of 48 hours of age has a total bilirubin of 12mg/dl, the following educational advice would be appropriate:

Jaundice may cause the baby to be sleepy, so there is no reason to be concerned he doesn't wake as often to feed
It is normal to have less stools when jaundice
The newborn may need to be awoken for more frequent feedings
Jaundice is less worrisome in breastfed infants

A postpartum mother states that she won't get pregnant if she is breastfeeding. Although lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) is not 100% effective, you provide her with the following advice:

Exclusive breastfeeding is necessary
It is effective for the first year of the infant's life
The introduction of solids does not affect LAM
As long as she doesn't have a menses it is effective