Baby Breastfeeding

Important Facts About Breastfeeding

 

By Najiah N

The first step to breastfeed your newborn baby is call The Early Breastfeed Initiation. This (EBI) Early Breastfeeding Initiation is a part of the delivering baby process where the baby is put on the mother’s chest to breast crawl to look for the mother’s nipple on his/her own, and then let the baby suck the nipple for about half an hour. This happens in the first hour of his/her birth before giving the baby bath and checking the weight, but after cutting the umbilical cord.

The Early Breastfeeding Initiation is the first key in gaining a successful breastfeeding your baby exclusively for the whole six months, and there are other factors that count too. These factors are some preparations a mother needs to do, like living a healthy life, that includes healthy food, some exercises, and enough sleep. There are also mental preparations like strong will and positive mindset that a mother can breastfeed, and throwing away all the negative thoughts like stress. Physical preparation is doing the breast massage regularly like once a day.

There is a important information or fact that everyone needs to know that there aren’t any formulas that can compete its composition from breast milk. Breast milk has the best composition there is in this world. Breast milk has more than 200 biofactors system (integrated nutrition in a right amount and compilation that produce growth nutrition and immunity). Compare to formula, it only has around 30-40 biofactors  Breast milk also gives the best immunity system there is against many diseases. Especially the first three days of the breast milk, contains what its call Colostrums. From many researches found that a child that had breast milk when s/he was a baby has higher point of intelligence.

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