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15 Facts of Breast Feeding
For nine months of facing the new life, the infant has been in an environment of a certain temperature, smell, heartbeat, and rhythm of the mother. After birth, the emergence into a hostile environment may be tempered by the recognition of a familiar smell, heartbeat, and maternal warmth. The infant also needs so much in protection from disease and infection, comfort and joy for his body and brain development.
When he is born, the infant soon perceives his outer boundaries by feeling his skin against his mother’s with its warmth and softness. Learning is taking place as the infant is continually exposed to the mother’s breast, and great pleasure is derived by this first human relationship. This consistent relationship with the mother offers the infant security, encouragement, and love.
Breast milk provides the best nutrients for the human baby that encourages physical development to its greater potential. Since all parents definitely want to have a good looking healthy child that has strong and perfect bone structure. It depend on very largely bone development, which determines facial and body structure, and because calcium is more efficiently absorbed from breast milk than from any type of formula, breast-fed babies usually have much better bone development. Read the rest of this entry »
Reasons of Breast Feeding Failure
More than any other factor, the success of breast feeding depends on how frequently the baby is allowed to suck. Most mothers agree that an infant should be put to the breast immediately after birth, even while the mother is still in the delivery room; and that the more often the baby nurses, the greater is the milk supply.
Sucking is so essential to stimulate the milk flow that if it decreases, it may cause a nursing failure. For example, sugar water given in hospital can ruin the baby’s appetite and make the baby too sleepy to suck vigorously.
The mother who is most successful at nursing is a happy, relaxed, calm individual who worries none at all about the housework. Who cares if the dirt is swept under the bed or if paper dishes are used temporarily? An over busy, impatient, or resentful mother allows her baby far too little time stimulate milk flow.All babies should, of course, be kept on a demand schedule and fed whenever hungry. Such infants will gain better, cry far less, allow both themselves and their parents to remain more relaxed, and soon set up a meal pattern of every three or four hours.
Nursing is also important for the sake of mother, so that the milk duct could be drained. A cracked nipple or inflammation, abscess, or infection are almost associated with an incompletely drained milk duct. When a baby is taken from the breast, however, the duct remains plugged, and a painful infection may persist for weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Wean From The Breast
Sudden weaning from the breast at a year might not be as physically uncomfortable fore the nursing mother as earlier weaning would have been. Since a toddler takes in more solids, milk production slows considerably at this time, making engorgement a less likely side effect. Still, gradual weaning generally works best for both members of most nursing teams because it allows mother and child time to adjust to the end of this very special era.
The adjustment will also be easier if you make a concerted effort to give your toddler extra love and attention during weaning. Replace the time you’ve spent together nursing with other one-on-one activities. Don’t show disapproval if your toddler replaces the comfort habit (such as thumb-sucking) or comfort object (such as a blanket or stuffed animal). Children need all the support they can get at this stage. Read the rest of this entry »