Have You Thought About Breast Feeding Your Baby?

If you have not decided on doing so yet, the following information might be useful:

Breast Milk In Relation To The Baby

• It significantly diminishes the risk of presenting grave and chronic diseases in premature babies. Remember that colostrum has all the defenses you can give your baby to protect the baby from the risk of infections.
• Neurological development: although the intelligence development and its relation with breast milk has been in the past fifty years a topic of controversy, there are studies that show that it does help to develop the intellectual development of premature babies due to the poly saturated fatty acids it has that cannot be found in cow milk or in artificially made milk.
• Allergy: it has been proven that breast milk protect the child from allergies in cases in which there has been a family incidence of allergies, and that this prevention can last until the child is an adult.
• Emotional and psychological advantages: the level of intimacy between you and your baby is very high during a breast-feeding session. The hormones that your body produces while the milk is flowing also incite maternal feelings. The milk that your baby drinks is an affective cordon that unites the baby to you, in the same way it did when the baby was in your womb.

Breast Milk In Relation To The Mother
Besides the satisfaction and communication you will experience during breastfeeding, diverse studies indicate that there are certain benefits for your health. When nursing, not only does the uterine re adaptation accelerate, diminishing in consequence the risk of hemorrhages, but also the bone mineralization after the birth improves. Some studies affirm that it reduces the risk of ovarian cancer.

Since breastfeeding a premature baby may not be the easiest thing to do, it is suggested that if you have decided to do so, you find support. Sometimes you will get lucky and find a nurse that is pro breast milk so don’t lose sight of this for one moment.