Breastfeeding a child is a unique, rewarding, symbiotic, intimate, to more quickly create emotional bonds between mother and child but in some cases, feeding the baby remains a source of concerns, particularly among new mothers. However, with the knowledge and technical aid of health professionals, it allows moms to enjoy this moment, when they feed them and this new guy, they give the breast or bottle, the mother who feeds her child feel more important somehow, that is to say, it meets the basic needs of her child, she shares a very popular time with it, she feels she is protective and more yet.
Nutritional Needs of the Baby
It is essential that the power of the newborn would give them all the nutrients it needs daily for its development and growth are optimal. Like adults, babies need a diet rich in minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates, protein and fat. Energy intake is 110 to 120 calories / kg / day, fluid requirements are 140 to 160 ml / kg / day and gaining weight is 30g for the baby bottle and nourriau 15 to 30g for the baby feeds within. We can therefore conclude that the bottle-fed babies gain weight faster than breastfed babies mainly because the formula contains more protein than breastmilk. However, it is harder for the baby to digest than formula milk because the nutrients in breast milk are easier to be digested.
What is the fact of Breastmilk?
I know it remains a very personal and unique to women, unfortunately, there are certain health professionals who try to put pressure on the poor women who are thinking more about giving the bottle but they look and feel of these women more easily while it is a very personal choice. Nevertheless, they are right to say that breast milk is the best diet for a woman to give her child. Some women tend to infant formula because they are not comfortable, at ease or find it difficult to breastfeed so it is quite normal for them to want to bottle feed. However, we find that breastfeeding increases more and more, that is to say that breastfeeding is more "in" and more women decide to breastfeed the infant because breastfeeding are many known advantages and benefits for both mother and child.
A question often remains in the mind of the woman and the partner, how milk is made to be more "health" as the formula?
The composition of breast milk is different from a lactation stage to another but also differs from the time of day, the time of feeding and the baby's age.
Colostrum
Colostrum is a "Milk" at the very beginning of breast feeding of yellowish color and texture say thicker, creamier than milk. It is much richer in lipids, proteins and carbohydrates as "milk" maternal. It is rich in immunoglobulins (group of glycoproteins) which brings the newborn immune largest and most important. Colostrum begins during early pregnancy and lasts only the first 4 days after birth.
Milk Transition
Transitional milk is milk that is produced as a result of colostrum. It is particularly rich in lactose (milk sugar), lipids (fats) and vitamins. In short, this milk contains more calories than colostrum itself. Its duration is 2 weeks after delivery and its appearance is less yellowish and thick as colostrum.
Mature Milk
Mature milk is milk that is the last product in some way by the woman's breasts. It is very rich in water, so fewer calories than milk transition but which differs from the other milk is that it contains small parts if you want solid, such as proteins, carbohydrates and lipids.
Milk in the Home and End of Fingercuffing
The "first" milk from your breast when feeding is richer in vitamins and water and milk to the end of the feed, it is light blue as skim milk somehow.
Advantages and Benefits of Breastfeeding
Benefits for Baby
Decrease of Labor in the Kidneys Baby
Breast milk is richer in fat than formula milk and formula milk is richer in protein than human milk. When a baby has a large protein intake, her body, specifically his kidneys must work harder to eliminate nitrogenous wastes that produce proteins. This allows the baby under her kidneys to work somehow while they are still immature, thus preventing certain health problems and complications that can occur if the child is unable to eliminate all this waste.
Increase Immune System (Defence Agency)
We often hear of this benefit of breastfeeding is increasing the strength and resilience of the immune system. It must first know that the baby is still an immature immune system, it is not fully protected many viruses, infections, etc ... so it is more vulnerable and fragile in these pathogens in some way (otitis, intestinal problems, meningitis). A woman breastfeeding her baby for more than three months, this child has an immune system than a formula fed baby and this protection lasted until the age of 1 year.
Breast milk is rich in antibodies that formula and as we have seen, colostrum is rich in immunoglobulins, specifically secretory IgA antibodies and these can increase the baby's protection against infections (bacterial or viral ) so the baby knows a way of antibacterial and antiviral properties, thus protecting the immune system. These immunoglobulins can protect the lining of the intestine by reducing its permeability and colostrum components help reduce the growth of bacteria and viruses.
Finally, a breast-fed baby has an intestinal flora more protected and strong since breast milk is rich in bacteria dominant in the flora.
Less Expensive
It is certain that the formula is relatively quite expensive, over $ 25 for a box, but it depends on the kind of milk you give your child as well as the product brand. However, breast milk does not cost anything except for women who use a breast pump or other tools for breastfeeding as a cushion, a bra, etc. ...
After one year here, but it depends of course on the appetite of your child, it can cost you hundreds and hundreds of dollars apart from all the waste that is made with this milk, which does not keep more 24 hours while the milk does not cost anything per se, but rather the "equipment" necessary costs that have but still, breastfeeding is much more cost effective than formula. We know that a child is expensive, clothing, diapers, medicines, etc. ... so if you are a woman or couple who track spending, it would be best to breastfeed your child.
Strengthening the Mother-Child Affective Link
When a woman breastfeeds her child, she certainly spends a moment with the baby because she feeds with a product that has made her body. Many women love to breastfeed because they feel very close and intimate with the newborn, this allows quality time to spend with the child, to see its evolution, etc ... Moreover, breastfeeding allows a woman and her baby to strengthen ties between these two emotional people.
Increase in Good Mood
When a woman breastfeeds her child within, it produces a hormone we call oxytocin is involved in childbirth, but it can also promote interactions love, cooperation, empathy, good humor, relaxation, a more constant mood, a feeling of well-being ... all of which allow the woman who breastfeeds her child to feel more useful and better about yourself, which will be reflected in their behavior with others, his way of thinking and to act with his child and other relationships.
Moreover, the fact that the mother and child have regular skin contact (through breastfeeding), touch is the communication medium of the child and the woman is more able to understand the needs of child more easily.
Always Ready and Good Temperature
Another great benefit of breastfeeding is that your milk is always ready and at the right temperature in contrast to that you need to wash bottles, sterilized and heated to the temperature and GOOD, several times a day. I find the fact that breastfeeding is a lot less hassle, lost time and "taponnage" as they say so in Quebec.
It sometimes happens that women are too warm milk and then there is significant risk of burns to the child by breastfeeding so, all this is eliminated.
More Rich in Lactose
Breast milk is rich in lactose (milk sugar) that the formula but it is also higher in fat and amino acids so it is more nutritious in some way. As I have said earlier also, breast milk is digested much more easily than formula or cow's milk because it contains more caffeine compared whey.
More Rich in Minerals
Breast milk is richer in minerals than infant formula and it helps to better meet the energy needs of the newborn and thereby encourage good development and good growth. It is true that breast milk contains less iron than formula milk but that contained in breast milk is absorbed or assimilated in greater quantities unlike formula milk so it can be concluded that this equates very closely.
Nutritional undenatured
When a woman does warm the bottle, it somehow misrepresents the nutritional formula, which ensures that the baby receives a lower energy value, which is not the case of breast milk as you n 'have no need to heat it.
Always the Same
Many people believe that milk composition changes everything depending on diet and health of women but there is nothing except for allergens (peanuts, cow's milk protein). Even if the mother is sick or not eating well, this does not necessarily affect the composition of breast milk.
Increase in IQ
This is a little wacky as a benefit of breastfeeding but according to some research, it is shown that children who were breast-fed have an IQ higher than children who were formula fed or cow. Breast milk is rich in essential fatty acids that are important in the development of visual and baby's nervous system, hence the higher IQ. The older the child has drunk long and a large quantity of milk, more high his IQ is proportionally (this does not mean to stuff her child breast milk).
Decrease Disease
Since breast milk can increase the child's immune system, this allows it to be protected against many diseases such as infectious and chronic diseases (diabetes, obesity, infection, gastroenteritis, ear infections, cardiovascular diseases) .
Moreover, it is shown that the rate of SIDS (sudden death syndrome in infants) is lower for breastfed babies unlike formula fed babies.
Less Colic
Breastfed babies are less affected by digestive problems like colic than babies fed formula so less crying.
Benefits for Mom
I'm not saying that women who give the bottle are less close to their child that breastfeeding women but it is true that women would have a great privilege to give the breast to feel their baby on their skin, their hands on their breasts, Etc..
The nursing mother feels when she fills the vital needs of her child, she plays a protective role, in short it plays well and correctly her role as mother. It can also make an easy to see the evolution of the baby because it is always she who feeds him. This link is extremely powerful and extraordinarily beautiful and to feel good.
More Rest Time
Since breast-feeding women are not dealing with washing bottles, sterilize and heat them, she has more time for herself and her baby. It may sound trite but how long do you spend it, at least 20 minutes a day and if you could not take that time for yourself?
More Money in Pockets
Having no need to buy bottles, electricity, pacifiers and infant formula, it will save you over $ 2500 a year and let's be honest, it sounds a lot on a budget. By having this money in your pocket, you may as well be placed in any one investment for yourself or for the future education of your child or you pay a nice big trip.
Decrease Risk of Breast Cancer
It is quite true that breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast, ovarian, endometrial and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. The more you breastfeed longer, your protection will be great but that does not mean necessarily to breastfeed your child for 5 years.
Faster Weight Loss
Breast-feeding is a certain energy expenditure greater than simply giving the bottle. Your child eats a portion of your energy intake by taking your milk, which allows you to lose weight faster after pregnancy, to find your size quickly and wear those clothes again.
Decrease Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Cardio-Vascular Diseases
Breastfeeding reduces by 15% per year risk of type 2 diabetes and also decrease thereby the risk of cardiovascular disease because diabetes is a risk factor precipitating these diseases.
Middle is a contraceptive
It is true that breastfeeding remains a contraceptive natural and very effective, 98 to 99%, which is very similar to birth control pills without side effects, without cost and without chemicals.
Give the Best
Since breast milk is more natural, without side effects and more nutritious than formula or cow's milk, the woman feels she gives the best of the best to her child. It is better about herself and feels she made every effort to be the best mother, increasing her confidence, esteem and enhances their self-image.
My Personal Opinion
I know that later I will breastfeed my children as having studied in the field of health, I know this is the best choice for my child but also for me. Moreover, in recent years, ever since the explosion in popularity of breastfeeding, many public places offer areas designed for women who are breastfeeding so it is not as difficult and restricting breastfeeding unlike before.
Also, for women who also want to give this privilege to the new dad, there are many "tools" to get the breast milk, milk storage (eg in the freezer) and let the father feeding her child to know what it is. Despite what you may think us women, men also appreciate, sometimes more, of having to feed her newborn, that allows him to feel useful in the development, growth and welfare of the child and this strengthens his skills as a father, especially if the mother encourages and values what he does.
But this is not because a mother decides to formula feeding and bottle it is a bad mother for all that, we must respect that choice because it is a very personal decision for everyone and after all, are not many disadvantages of formula feeding to the child.
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