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breastfeeding, multiple benefits

breastfeeding, multiple benefits

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 10/10/2023

Breastfeeding has many benefits for both mom and baby. For baby greatly reduces diarrheal infections, gastroenteritis, lower incidence of leukemia and diabetes, among others; mom helps you lose weight, reduce osteoporosis, breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

Dr. Horacio Reyes Vázquez

Benefits provided by breast milk for babies are very broad, acute care decreases the incidence of gastroenteritis or diarrheal infections by 64%, pneumonias up to 72%, are also influenza, but the great advantage for the baby is long term, 4% less obesity for each month of breastfeeding. Lower incidence of leukemia, also lower incidence of diabetes, both the child and adult, and has significant impact also on crib death, there is less incidence of cot death in children who are breastfed.

Advantages of breastfeeding mum

Breastfeeding has great advantages for the mother, the mother who breastfeeds will lose weight fast throughout the lactation stage, leading a fairly normal diet, restricting some carbohydrates, leading a diet based on fruits, vegetables, protein. Another major long - term benefits is that there is less incidence of osteoporosis and perhaps more important for the nursing mother advantage is the decreased risk of breast cancer by 28% and ovarian cancer by 24 %, this is achieved through a feeding conducted for a year, which means that, if the mother has a baby, breastfeed for one year, if mom has 2 or 3 babies, accumulation between each they breastfeeding should be for more than one year. The advantages are very important for mom in the short and long term.

Recommendations during lactation

Breastfeeding is recommended to be exclusively, ie only breast, without giving water, tea, or other liquids during the first 6 months of life, from the sixth month must continue with breast milk and add a complementary foods are fruits, vegetables and meat, which is the recommendation that the Secretary of Health gives for breast - fed or formula babies, but be supplemented from the sixth month. It is recommended that breastfeeding continue up to two years, according to the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health of Mexico. Here the fundamental recommendation is, knowing and knowing the advantages of feeding a baby, as long as the mother and baby are happy each receiving all the benefits of breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding and early contact with the baby

To have adequate milk production that is required is the suckling baby, the earlier better, meaning that the baby is put to the breast immediately after birth in the first hour, the mother has the baby with her ​​to give breastfeeding exclusively, and is known today that production of milk depends on the suction mom if the baby suckles frequently and at times he established, the mother will have a greater milk production. There are babies who are called barracudas, fast and end up sucking in 10 minutes, others are called descansadores or gourmets, it takes half an hour, every baby should be given time and the more higher milk production will last suctioning. This is important especially for the amount of milk production and this depends on the food, which must be complete and rest, especially in the first weeks of breastfeeding are the most demanding, for a while in the morning and for a while the afternoon. It is important to mention that the mother should be relaxed during breastfeeding and avoid stress, as these factors reduce milk production.

In conclusion it is recommended, an early lactation, early contact, free baby demand and this leads to good milk production.

Pediatrics in Miguel Hidalgo