Breastfeeding facts

 

Top 5 Benefits of BreastMilk

Breast milk has the ability to actually fight specific infections based on where you are and where your baby specifically says you're in the room you actually inhale the bacteria that are on your baby. Your milk actually makes antibodies for bacteria that are in that room that is on your baby. So your you actually inhale bacteria your body then makes antibodies for the bacteria that you inhale from your baby so that your baby is protected for the bacteria that are specifically in that room. So say that you walk across the street and you're in a different. The room you're in a different building. So you're in the building be and you're doing skin-to-skin with your baby. There you actually inhale that bacteria in your milk then make antibodies for building be so that your baby then is protected from building be bacteria. It's one of the most amazing things that I find about breast milk, so your baby is unprotected from bacteria-specific specifically in that building.

Another immune function that breast milk provides is within the baby's gut one of the reasons that we promote breastfeeding it in the early days after birth is that we know that breast milk actually does what we call colonization of the gut it actually provides healthy and normal bacterial growth within the gut that protects the gut from Bad bacterial growth one of the things We found is that premature baby within a NICU setting called will not have the introduction of good bacteria. We're at a much higher risk of what we call necrotizing enterocolitis and what that is is it's the introduction of bad bacteria that can actually cause a process of bad bacteria. You actually kind of invading God and causing and necrotizing process, which is a rotting of the gut and those babies did very poorly and actually many died many lost before for large portions of their gut. So what happened was we were seeing some of these very premature babies that were actually dying from this process. So what we did and this is probably In the last 15 to 20 years we started saying well, what can we do to save some of these babies that were having this gut process and what we started doing was introducing breast milk early in their life in the first 24 to 48 hours of life . And what we discovered was that to the introduction of breast milk early on and the introduction of good bacteria from the breast milk that we were actually saving those babies guts and their lives and those babies were actually growing and doing much better than they were prior to the introduction of breast milk and that through early feedings of breast milk and the introduction of good bacteria and Ferb Rebecca protection that breast milk offered them those babies were living and they were actually growing and they weren't having that process of that necrotizing gut process and so three learn so much about breast milk and the predicted protective properties that it offered. So now what we do within the NICU setting for those extremely premature babies, we want to make sure that they get fed early with breast milk and if mothers can't provide breast milk they now are being offered donor breast milk through milk Banks breast milk that has been pasteurized and process, but they all get breast milk. uh curly as a protection for their gut so we know that breast milk offers that protection so it not only colonizes our offers good bacteria to the gut it protects the gut and we are saving a lot more of those early babies because of the introduction of breast milk. And so that that's the protection that breast milk offers the got offers gut protection as far as a lining, but it so offers a good bacteria that prevent that bad bacteria from invading that so that's how important breast milk is to those extremely premature babies. That's the protection that it offers them. So that's another amazing thing about breast milk.

What are the coolest things about breast milk is the laxative effect that it has to help clear a newborn baby's gut so when a baby is inside and actually then considered a fetus. Milk does is that it has a very laxative effect to move that kind of thick tarry stool out that that's called meconium and it actually helps to move that out. So it has a very laxative effect it helps to move that through so that the baby actually as they start eating they're actually able to poop a lot easier so that classroom or that early milk is perfectly designed. really designed to help move that victorie poop out so that the baby then starts actually drinking their milk, and they actually start pooping normally so that milk is perfectly designed to get that stool out so that they actually then as the milk converts over to more or we are used to seeing more milk, and then they actually start pooping a more breastfed kind of poop, which is more liquid and more yellow or yellow CDs tool but then they actually start converting over once they get that thick Tory's tool out and they start drinking milk and they actually then start pooping the yellow CD stool so that colostrum is perfectly designed to help get that thick tarry stool moving and out. 

Another cool thing about breast milk is perfectly designed every single feeding is perfectly designed for that baby for that specific feeding. So it's not like formula feeding. where the formula feeding every feeding is the same bra smoke seeds are perfectly designed for what the baby needs at that particular feeding. So if for one feeding a baby Needs more carbohydrates than fat. That's what that baby gets for that particular feeding. You don't understand exactly how that works, but it's true if the baby needs more fat for one feeding the baby gets more fat to that feeding. Each feeding is tailored exactly for what the baby needs for that particular feeding how that works. Nobody's really clear. But we know that it's true. So it's almost like the baby pulls up to the table and says, well, I'm going to need this at this feeding and so the baby demands it and that's exactly what the baby gets based on what the baby's body needs for that particular feeding. So if you were to take the milk that the baby gets on that feeding, every feeding would be different throughout the day, no one knows as I said, nobody knows exactly how that works. But we know that it's true. So it's everything is tailored for the body's needs for that particular feeding. And that's unique. That extremely makes you could not demand that in a formula feed you could really demand that if you pulled up to the table and went to a lovely restaurant every day, but that's not the baby demands and they are able to get that. Through the breastfeeding relationship between a mother and a baby.

Another cool thing about breast milk, is that breast milk is designed to be the perfect meal for a baby. A baby can regulate how much they get how often they get it a breastfed baby will not overeat. Wait, they are specifically in tune with the mother's body to get. Exactly in tune with the mother's body to get exactly what they need at every meal and over the course of time. so you never have to worry about a baby eating too much the beautiful thing about a breastfed baby is that they're able to Pace they're feeding so that they don't get too much volume. that one feed milk. Some milk has taken on slower than typical bottle-feeding so that they drink it slower. They tend to digest it better-breastfed babies who are able to nurse at the breast while tend to take it slower than if you gave it to them in a bottle. so it is tended it. They tend to digest it better and they don't tend to have as much reflux.

Top 8 facts about breastfeeding.

1.   The amount of energy needed to breastfeed a baby each day......is the same you'd need to walk SEVEN miles!                        
2.  Almost three-quarters of mums produce more milk with their right breast.                                                                                 
3.  Breastfed babies can literally pick their mummy out of a line up based on smell alone.                                                                                 
4.  The amount of breast milk a mum produces has nothing to do with her breast size.                                                                           
5.  Nursing your baby triggers the release of the hormone called oxytocin.                                                                                            
6.  Babies drink around 67% of the milk mum has available.                                                                                                      
7.  Drinking until they are full, not until the breast is emptied.                                                                                              
8.  Your breasts can Leak even if you're just thinking about your baby or hear another one cry, so breast pads can come in handy!