BREAST FEEDING

The importance of Breast Feeding and Breast Milk

The importance of Breast Feeding and Breast Milk

Introduction

In the early days, everything is easier if we are with your baby. Since the postpartum to return home, we must turn it on continuously, so we can touch, look, talking, rocking and breastfed like it. Milk from the early days, called colostrum, is yellowish and thick. Precisely so it is rich in antibodies that protect your child from serious infections and stimulates breastfeed frequently. Colostrum has a laxative effect and helps the baby to evacuate meconium from the bowel, thus eliminating the bilirubin, which in excess causes jaundice (Yellowing of the skin). During the first seven days, the colostrum loses its color, and the milk goes becoming increasingly white. This milk is of two kinds: the first is watery and weak, occurs and together in the breasts in between feedings, the second is occurs during feedings, is abundant and thick, satisfied, feeds and fattens the baby. It is whiter because it contains more fat and protein. The so-called "milk watery "is the first baby takes and quenches thirst. So-called" milk fat "is the second that the baby drinks, comes in the "letdown" and calms the baby's hunger.

Discussion

The breast is composed of a large number of milk producing alveoli and ducts from the milk, which collects in the sinuses, awaiting the order to exit through the nipple The alveoli are located on the chest, and ducts lacteals in the anterior half of the breasts. Surrounding each alveolus there are cells called myoepithelial able to contract compressing the socket so that forces him to expel the milk into the conductos.El simplified diagram of the breast shows fewer alveoli and ducts breasts than there are in fact for clarity.

In the early days, everything is easier if we are with your baby. Since the postpartum to return home, we must turn it on continuously, so we can touch, look, talk, rocking and breastfed like it. Milk from the early days, called colostrum, is yellowish and thick (Robinson & Vandevusse, 2011). Precisely because it is rich in antibodies that protect your child from serious infections and stimulates it to nurse frequently. Colostrum has a laxative effect and helps the baby to pass meconium in their intestines, eliminating the bilirubin, which in excess causes jaundice (yellowing of the skin).

During the first seven days, the colostrum loses its color, and milk is getting more and more white. This milk is of two kinds: the first is watery and weak, and O occurs in the breasts in between feedings, the second occurs during feedings, is rich and thick, satisfied, feeds and fattens the baby. It is whiter because it contains more fat and protein (Yildiz, Arikan, Gözüm, Tastekin & Budancamanak, 2011). The so-called "milk and water" is the first that the baby drinks and quenches thirst. The so-called "milk fat" is the second the baby drinks, comes in the "letdown" and calms the baby's hunger.

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