Archive for December, 2009
Breast Feeding
WHY” BREASTFEEDING?
The breast milk is the best food for a mother can offer to his son newborn. Not only whereas its composition but also in the emotional aspect since the link emotional between a mother and baby nursed constitutes a special experience, unique and intense. There only solid bases scientific to show that breastfeeding is beneficial to the children, for the mother and society, in all the countries of the world.
Breast milk contains everything that the child needs during the first months of life. Protects the child against many diseases such as colds, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, otitis, meningitis, infections of urine, necrotizing enterocolitis or syndrome of death infant, while the baby is being breastfed; but also protects you from future diseases such as asthma, allergies, obesity, immune system diseases such as diabetes, Crohn’s Disease or ulcerative colitis and arteriosclerosis or myocardial infarction in adulthood and promotes the intellectual development.
The benefits of breast-feeding also extend to the mother. Women who breast-feeding lose weight gained during pregnancy more quickly and is more difficult to suffer from anemia after delivery, also have less risk of hypertension and depression after childbirth. The osteoporosis and cancers of the breast and ovarian cancer are less frequent in women who nursed their children.
From another point of view, the breast milk is a food greening logical since it does not need manufactured, packaged or transported with what is saves energy and avoiding pollution of the environment. And it is also economic to the family, which can save close to 100,000 pts. in feeding in a year. In addition, due to the lower incidence of diseases, the kids breastfed cause less spending their families and society in medicines and use of Health Services and originate less loss on absenteeism of their parents.
For all these reasons and in accordance with the organization of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Committee of Breast-Feeding of the Association Spain wave of pediatrics, recommends feeding exclusively to the chest during the first 6 months of the life of children and continue breast-feeding along with the meals suitable until 2 years old or more.”
THE BEGINNING
It is important that the child or be offered the chest early, to be possible in the first half an hour after childbirth. After the first hour, the newborn tends to be numbed few hours. During this time, we recommend that the baby remains next to his mother but not showing interest in breastfeed and as to stimulate the skin contact with skin between the two . You can be offered the chest as soon as you notice that the child is ready to breastfeed (movements of the mouth looking for the nipple, fading…) and not only crying. The crying is a sign late or hunger.
What ONLY CHEST?
Any woman can be able to feed his son exclusively with their milk. The difference between some breasts large or small, virtually, is the amount of fat that contain not quantity of gland producing milk. Moreover, the causes that contraindicate breastfeeding (some diseases or drugs…) are very rare, almost exceptional. Today, a, almost all maternal diseases have any treatment that can be done without having to suspend the breastfeeding (consultation to your pediatrician).
The main stimulo that induces the production of milk is the suction of children, therefore, how many more times grasps the baby to the chest of the mother and the better is emptied more milk occurs. The amount is in line with what the child takes and the times that empty to the chest a day. The quality also varies with the needs of children or along the time. During the first days, the milk is more yellowish (colostrum) and contains more protein nas and substances antiinfectious; subsequently appears the milk matures. Their appearance may seem especially at the beginning of the takes because it is toward the end of the same when it is increasing its fat content. However, there is no breast milk of low quality; this is always appropriate to the baby and it is all that he needs.
It is important, especially in the beginning, not offered the child pacifiers or bottles. A teat do not cup of the same way as the chest by what the newborn can confundirs and subsequently grab the chest with less effectiveness (used different musculature of suction with the pacifier and the bottle that in the process of suction³n of the chest). This may be the cause of problems such as cracks in the nipple, mastitis and lack of milk in the long run. Nor is it advisable to use teatcups. The cracks arise because the children or grasps badly at the breast, so that the important thing is to correct the position (ask for help to your pediatrician, midwives, nurse pediatrics or expert on breastfeeding). The use of teatcups shortens the length of the breastfeeding and además makes very in fashion.
A newborn healthy does not need more fluid that he derives from the milk of his mother, neither necessary nor advisable offer water or solutions of serum glucose. Before giving suplementos or any food other than the breast milk is appropriate to consult your pediatrician.
The time each baby needed to complete a takes is different for each baby and every mother and also varies depending on the age of baby and a takes to another. In addition, the composition of the milk is not equal to the principle and at the end of the taking, nor in the early days of life or when the baby is 6 months. The milk of the principle is more watery but contains most of the protein nas and sugar; the milk of the end of the takes is less abundant but has more blending (the fat content and vitamins is greater). Both the number of jacks that the children or takes a day, as the time that invests in each, it is very variable so and there is no set fixed rules. It is better to offer the chest. A child can hope to breastfeed 15 minutes of having carried out a takes or on the contrary by more than 4 hours in calling for the next, although at first, during the first 15 or 20 days of life, it should try to children or make at least some 8 jacks in 24 hours. Nor is it advisable that the mother or those who accompany limit the median duration each shot, the baby is the sole that know when it has been met and it is important that has taken the milk of the end of the takes. The ideal is that the takes lasts until it is the children who are release spontaneous php chest.
Some kids get the need of a single chest and others take of both. In this latest case, it is possible that the children or not empty and completely the latest, so that the takes next you’LL start in ste. The important thing is not that the child mame both breasts but empty and complete and alternately every one of them, to avoid that accumulate the milk can lead to the development of a mastitis and for the body of the mother attaching the production of milk to the needs of his son. It is therefore recommends allowing the children or end with a chest before offering the other.
Although the children or take the chest very often or remains much time grasped in each takes, this does not have why facilitate the appearance of cracks in the nipple if the position and the grip of children or are correct