Showing posts with label Breastfeeding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breastfeeding. Show all posts

Sep 21, 2011

How to overcome vomiting in babies

GladChild: Vomiting in babies is one of the disorders that often occur in infants. Typically, this occurs because the baby is too much to drink milk, spit and air disturbance. Babies who are cuddled too closely after a meal are also stimulated to vomit, how to overcome vomiting in babies:
  • Slow-feeding give it little by little, but with the frequency rather frequently. Try to burp your baby every time you move to the other breast.
  • Feed the baby in an upright position. Position your baby remain upright for 20-30 minutes after feeding. Do not be cuddled or rocked, at least half an hour after feeding. If given a milk bottle, make sure the nipple hole is too small or too big.
  • Formula milk allergy or food that mothers eat can affect the baby through breast milk consumption.
  • Generally foods that are potentially disruptive in breast milk is made from dairy-processed products, foods or beverages that contain caffeine, such as soft drinks, chocolate, coffee, tea, etc. Then the seeds and nuts, for example wheat, corn, peanuts, spicy foods and foods that contain a gas such as broccoli, garlic, bean sprouts, green peppers, cauliflower, cabbage and so on.
So it's good if the mother keep the food he eats. Eat only healthy foods, especially foods that are recommended by your doctor.


Aug 28, 2011

Breastfeeding can prevent intestinal infections in infants

GladChild: Infants who consumed breast milk as early as possible to avoid indigestion, and even avoid the deaths from intestinal infectious diseases.

Breast milk contains special bacteria, namely Lactobacillus bifidus  which is not harmful to the baby and grew rapidly in the gut of infants who consume breast milk.

Germs that cause changes in the intestine so that other germs such as bacteria E. coli can cause diarrheal illness could not develop in the infant gut.

Colostrums or breast milk for the first out, the liquid is rather thick and yellowish, contain antibodies against various diseases, including digestive diseases, whooping cough, pneumonia and encephalitis.

Breast milk also contains other important substances, i.e. substances that are useful complement to destroy bacteria so easy to eat the white blood cells and also serves as an antidote to allergies.

In addition, breast milk also contains lysozyme that can break the wall of bacteria, and the amount in breast milk is about 300 times more than cow milk.

A healthy mothers should breastfeed their babies with breast milk directly, because it contains various substances in addition to antibodies, breast milk also contains high protein and minerals that are useful to regulate bowel movements to normal.

Breastfeeding babies immediately after birth, also provide benefits for the mother, the womb of the mother is rapidly shrinking so that bleeding after childbirth will be reduced.

When the baby sucking mother's nipple, pituitary gland located under the brain will be stimulated to produce the hormone oxytocin, which serves to help the milk expenditures, besides giving a sense of calm in the capital and shrink the uterus.


May 18, 2011

How To Breast Feeding a Newborn Baby

GladChild: Not all mothers breastfed immediately postpartum finished out. Learn tips for you who are now experiencing this problem.

While still a new born baby up to approximately 6 months, exclusively breastfeeding babies were a major intake. It was also agreed that experts say that breast feeding lords should begin after two hours of labor. Babies can take approximately 80 percent of consumption such as food early so that nutrients are met. After that, the baby cans breastfeed after returning 10 minutes later.

When the newborn baby, feeding the agenda may be needed every two or three hours. Each feeding duration is usually held with a time varying, i.e., between 10-40 minutes. Given continued breast feeding until the baby is at least the age of six months. In this case, no special steps needed to prepare for breast feeding.

There is no agenda to massage the breast or nipple stretching exercises required during pregnancy. Once delivery is complete, you just prepare for nursing bras, breast pads and breast pump. In addition, the best idea you can do is to immediately get and accurate information as possible about breast feeding procedure from your doctor. This will give you the confidence where it is the best preparation for a mother.

The Benefits of breastfeeding

Breast feeding is the simplest and healthiest to feed your baby because the milk contains the right mix, including protein content (the perfect balance of amino acids), fats, sugar, water, minerals, vitamins, enzymes, and antibodies to your baby.

This consumption will increase immunity and protect their babies from diarrhea infections, respiratory problems and other disorders. Breastfeeding babies will be much lower to avoid the risk of diabetes, obesity, and allergic conditions and have a better cognitive development. In addition, breast feeding also is a technique for effective birth control. If less than six months postpartum and exclusively breastfeeding babies, and you have not got my period, then you will be protected as much as 98 percent of pregnancies.

Here are some breastfeeding tips:
  • It is important to note that mother and baby should be in a comfortable position. The baby's body and neck should be in a straight line.
  • Hold the baby by covering her body with your hands up to his protected right corner and then bring the baby toward your breast.
  • With a good position, which carried a baby sucking process will be easier.
  • Keep skin contact with baby after birth because the baby can stimulate the instinct to seek the breast.
  • Give breast milk as often as possible because it ensures adequate breast stimulation to maintain a good milk flow.
  • Try to keep the breast in order not always full. So, after giving food and remove by pumping milk. This will from the keep the milk flow and Prevent problems Such as swelling or lumps in the breast.

    May 15, 2011

    Breast Milk Influence Child Behavior

    GladChild: Breast milk provides a lot of good for babies who drank it. Not only contains immune factors in healthy, breast milk also seems to affect children behavior at the age of five years.

    The results of this study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood two days ago. The results showed that children who are breastfed have fewer behavior problems than those who drink formula.

    Researchers in England in 2000-2001 to analyze more than 10 thousand mother-child pairs, Approximately nine thousand of them long-term benefits of breastfeeding, including 500 babies born prematurely.

    There is a long-term breastfed infants, 29 percent of infants exclusively breastfed for four months and 21 percent of children who breastfed less in the long term. Parents must fill out a questionnaire to identify different types of behaviors, including stealing, lying, anxiety, and hyperactivity.

    Our findings indicate longer breastfeeding, either continuous or exclusive, have fewer behavior problems in the long run, said Mary Quigley of the National Epidemiology Perinatal Unit at Oxford University.

    Quigley shows six percent of baby’s breastfed and formula feeding has a 16 percent difference in questionnaire score and an indication of potential behavioral problems. According to researchers, breast milk could be the reason.

    Breast milk contains large amounts of certain fatty acids, growth factors, hormones important in the development and functioning of the brain and central nervous system, said Quegley.

    Interactions of mothers and children who breastfed also awakened so that also influences the behavior of such children.