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breast milk, the ideal food

breast milk, the ideal food

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 10/10/2023

Breast milk is the ideal food for the human being as it covers the nutritional, immunological and emotional needs baby. We recommend feeding a baby between six months to two years, depending on what the mother considers.

Dr. Juan Jose Almaraz Navarro

lactation Human milk is considered the ideal food for humans why? simply because it is of the same species, this is known as specificity, contains foods easy nutrients to digest, such as the most important carbohydrate is lactose, this provides quick energy simply for the central nervous system function, or the brain. Fats are what are called omega 3 and omega 6 and serve precisely to mature central nervous system, that speaking in nutrition, but has many other living elements such as cells that protect you against infections, immunoglobulins, isozymes, substances that are to improve the development of a human being in their early years of life.

Recommended feeding period

The ideal power of a human being really is a very personal decision of each woman who is breastfeeding time, however organizations engaged in child care, their health, such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF, promote the minimum power necessary, 6 months recommended until the year but can extend this period up to 2 years of age, both nutritional need as immune covered and infections in babies are avoided.

Frequency power indefinitely

The frequency with which you should feed a baby human milk is really very interesting, always said it must be "on demand", ie whenever it needs to be fed a baby what this much can be? because the variant may be between half hours and four hours, and really this is not going to be constantly because it is the variability, simply for the production of human milk is not mom a producing milk machine that will produce 2 ounces each 3 hours, this is very variable, the human body produces at different times of the day or night, and that's what makes it really interesting for what is called "on demand".

many advantages

The advantages of human milk over formula milk are endless, really human milk is the role model of companies that modify the components of cow's milk to make it accessible or digestible for humans, so the advantages they are numerous, first ease of digestion, that is very important, so the baby will ask a little more often, if take formula, and nutritional advantage covers exactly the requirements of a human being. The immunological advantage is something that still can not match with other food as formulas, because it provides a living tissue contains cells, immunoglobulins, white blood cells, contains other substances that protect against viruses, bacteria, fungi etc.

The advantage is also very important emotional, attachment between mother and baby when being fed, there is physical contact that skin to skin is very important for the harmonious development of human beings.

Pediatrics in Miguel Hidalgo