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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

The majority of respiratory diseases common winter are produced by a wide variety of virus; this explains the possibility that people absolutely healthy suffer from these diseases in the form repeated; in particular the children under five years, which can suffer from between three and five episodes of illness per year.

As these diseases are caused by viruses, they are not treated with antibiotics, unless they are indicated by your doctor when you have the suspicion of an infection caused by bacteria.

The disease respirartorias appear more by the contagion is conducive to the lack defenses of the immune system of their own weather conditions. This contagion is compounded by the coexistence or overcrowding of healthy people and sick in places closed, as a classroom. It is estimated that for every sick there are two or more people infected.

Is vital, then protect and strengthen the immune system of our children through adequate food . In the daily diet of children for this time of cold must be present enough vitamins and minerals.

The consumption of foods with vitamin C help to strengthen the immune system and prevent colds. The most important sources of where we can get vitamin C are fruits and vegetables, especially the citrus fruits: lemon, orange, grapefruit and tangerine; strawberries, kiwi fruit, mango, guava, papaya; vegetables like carrots, tomatoes, peppers and the family of cabbage, in addition to the honey.

The lysine is another element that can help significantly during the winter. It is an essential amino acid that helps the optimal use of the food producing greater energy; favors the appetite naturally and contributes to the strengthening of the immune system of children.

Because the lysine is an amino acid that does not produce the agency, must be obtained from the food and administered in adequate doses every day of the year. The sources richest lysine are proteins animals such as meat and chicken, but it is also found in dairy products, eggs and beans.

In addition to the acute respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, especially the rotavirus also are in place with greater force during Winter, so that in addition to adequately feed the children, the health institutions recommended vaccines.

The vaccine influenza prevents its presence in the majority of people receiving it, and in other reduces the severity of symptoms and its complications. This protects for one year and is given in a single dose that should be administered in Autumn. Other vaccines that are advised to apply in Winter are the pneumococcus(against pneumonia) and against the rotavirus. Ask your pediatrician.

Care for their small and in case of fall ill, not the imprrwements without medical supervision.

Avoid subjecting them to sudden changes in temperature (use scarves, gloves and hats) and seek to drink plenty of water.

It is preferable bathe at night, drying his hair; that in the morning before leaving.

Avoid exposure to environmental contaminants. Do not smoke in enclosed places and near children, elderly and sick people, because the smoke cigar exacerbates the condition.

Monitor the health of their children.

Preferably eat at home, because that food is more nutritious and more economic, and if you have to eat outside check that the place this clean.

The babies react with the crying and gestures based their feelings.

* UNED and universities of Valencia and Murcia participated in a pioneering study on the expressions and types of crying 45 kids.
* What when nervous or afraid? Now you can know.

Three scientists of the UNED, the University of Valencia and Murcia, together with experts from the Institute of baby Nuk, to make life more easy to new mammals, with the guide of the expression of baby based on the study scientific on communication gestural and prosadica of baby.

In this work have succeeded in interpreting gestures basics that indicate their emotions. For example, when they fear open eyes as dishes and, from the six months, fleeing; or when are nervous eat more damage or toys.

The crying also is enlightening. The nuances of his sound can denote diseases or disorders of any kind, and the bulk of the population is only able to distinguish the nuance of pain.

Mothers learn the nuances of crying or expressions in the early days of how frustrating

To develop this guide, the scientists have had to invent a new methodology of work to observe 45 babies between 3 and 18 months, and have created a new process of evaluation for the more small.

So, the teachers Francisco  have recorded their reactions in nursery and health centers (especially at the time of the vaccination)… and even have had to scare or cause the laughter to capture its expression. “The mothers learn the nuances of crying or expressions of children in the early days of life in a frustrating,”

The professor of history of the National University of education (UNED) Enrique G. Abascal, points out that it produces a major change in the emotions of baby from the six months, become less intense and begin to express in a different way.

And it can be dramatic, sima the manner in which parents teach their children to manage their feelings from this early age, because in a same estímulo, says Professor¡, “a child can have a crisis of anxiety or play and stay calm, something that helps detect future emotional problems”.

And a curiosity: the downside is innate and, in contrast, the positive is learned.

“We are touring”

Nadia Hammoudi has a baby in three months and has participated in one of the stimulations organized by Nuk and responsible for the study. “In these three months since we are going touring. ONLY© identify perfection the weeping by hunger, pain of belly or cacrylic… but also when only what you want to be treat. We have explained simple actions to learn the affectivity positive, as relativize the pain of fall and not telling: poor!”, recounts.