Breast milk is ideal food for the baby in the first months of his life. Knowing it, many young mothers very much try to adjust natural feeding and as long as possible to continue it. There are several secrets allowing women to achieve success in this case and to nurse the child until it is necessary.
The structure of breast milk completely corresponds to requirements of an organism of the baby and is ideally balanced. It includes the fats, carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, autoferment promoting fast digestion of milk and also maternal antibodies. And it is only a small part of with what the organism of mother is capable to provide the child.
Features of feeding by a breast
Maternal milk is individual on structure which is regulated by the child. It means that the players of milk can be changed during the day, besides, it changes throughout the entire period of a lactation.
The quality of milk in many respects depends on health of the woman. The lack of vitamins and minerals of an organism of mother can have an adverse effect on growth and psychological development of the newborn. Understanding it, many mothers begin to worry about whether it is enough at them milk and as it is correct to put the child to a breast.
Pediatricians are sure that in the first 6 months of life in one feeding it is necessary to give only one breast. The child exhausts in the beginning so-called "top" milk which serves for it as drink. Only then it reaches fatter "lower" milk providing it all necessary quickly to develop and well grow. If it is correct to alternate a breast when feeding and to allow the child to eat in 2.5-3 hours, then each mammary gland in the expired 5-6 hours manages to be filled. Food needs of the baby at such diet are satisfied completely, and the lactation becomes more stable.
"Gold" rules of successful feeding
There is a number of requirements which observance helps to adjust quickly breastfeeding and to keep it during the whole first year of life of the child. First of all, it is necessary to put the baby to a breast right after the birth. Colostrum is an irreplaceable source of finding of protective antibodies against one million microbes which the newborn faces the first minutes of life. The child and mother have to be in one room – then mother can feed the kid right after he wants it. In the beginning the newborn needs to be fed on demand, without decanting "excess" milk. It is necessary to refuse feeding from a small bottle. Only in this case at the kid the habit to suck a breast correctly will be created, and the mammary gland will develop his such quantity which he will be able to eat. It is not recommended to wash a breast before feeding, any soap dries a skin, and on nipples cracks are formed. For maintenance of hygiene it is enough to woman to take a shower in the morning and in the evening. It is simple to follow the above-stated advice, and efforts to keep maternal milk always pay off a hundredfold: the kid will be healthy, full and cheerful.