Do not provide breastfed newborns any food or fluids other than breast milk, unless medically indicated. It has a nearly perfect mix of vitamins, protein, and fat everything your baby needs to grow. Breast milk provides all the energy, nutrients and liquid that an infant needs for the first six months of its life. Breastmilk is more easily digested than infant formulas, and changes from feed to feed to suit each babys unique needs, making it the ideal food to promote. However, the iodine content of breast milk depends on how much iodine the mother gets. Colostrum is rich in proteins, carbs, lipids fat, and immune factors. Among its other known health benefits are some protection against common childhood infections and better survival during a babys first year, including a lower risk of sudden. Pdf the advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding. Lets stop the war between breastfeeding and formula feeding. The importance of maternal nutrition during breastfeeding.
Benefits and challenges of the use of human milk for. Animals, including humans, produce milk to feed their young until they are ready for solid food. It should be soft, breathable without plastic cladding at the back. When your breasts are less full, you have more fat in your milk to satisfy your baby. Breast milk changes constantly to meet babies needs. Breast milk is the only food your baby needs for the irst six months of life breast milk has all the nutrition and luid your baby needs for the irst six months, even in hot weather. Human milk contains both saturated and unsaturated fats, as well as cholesterol, an important constituent of brain and nerve tissue. Infant and young child feeding world health organization.
Studies reveal that children fed breast milk at this important stage grow up healthier and stronger than children fed formula. Lactation importance of milk chapter 1 importance of milk 1. The role of prenatal food insecurity on breastfeeding behaviors. Comply fully with the international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes and relevant world health assembly resolutions. When my milk production dwindled after returning to work, i just had to give up on the idea of feeding my baby only breast milk. You may want to read the section on choosing a breast pump to know which pump is best for you, depending on your circumstances. Breast milk is normally the only food that infants need for the first 6 months of life. The advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding for maternal mental and physical health article pdf available february 20 with 8,387 reads how we measure reads. Research shows that breastfeeding offers many health benefits for infants and mothers, as well as potential economic and environmental benefits for communities. Breastfeeding should commence as soon as possible after giving birth and every 1 to 3 hours per 24 hours 812 times per24 hours. It is available wherever and whenever your baby needs it.
Breast milk is always ready and good for the environment. The two metaanalysis from randomized controlled trials compare formula milk with donor breast milk. Breast milk is critical in compensating for developmental delays in immune function in the neonate, and responsible for reducing permeability of the intestine to prepare it for extrauterine life. The importance of breastfeeding breastfeeding, initiated within the first hour of birth, provided exclusively for. Breastfeeding and health outcomes for the motherinfant dyad. Being a mother gives immense pleasure and makes her much more responsible person in everyway.
Importance of breast feedingstagesadvantagesbenefits. Now, she has to take care of that newborn baby who have just arrived in this world. In addition to its health benefits, breastfeeding is also great for the environment. Health risks of not breastfeeding breast milk has agents called. As such, milk contains valuable nutrients that help. Characteristics of nipple are an important factor in the success of breast feeding.
The milk changes in volume and composition according to the time of day, nursing frequency, and age of baby to promote healthy growth. The fat in breast milk is more digestible than that in formula. Milk as a fluid milk is a complex fluid composed of several phases that can be separated by centrifugation neville, 1995a into a cream layer, an aqueous phase, and a twophase pellet. Later in life women who do not breastfeed are at higher risk for diabetes, osteoporosis, breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers. Anatomy of the lactating human breast redefined with. Breast milk is uniquely suited to the human infants nutritional needs and is a live substance with unparalleled immunological and antiinflammatory properties that protect against a host of illnesses and. Short, flat, or inverted nipples can be related to physical and psychological negative effects for the breastfeeding.
When you outgrow your regular bra it is advisable to buy a nursing bra instead of a regular large one. Support mothers to recognize and respond to their infants cues for feeding. Giving other foods of luids may decrease your babys desire for your breast milk. The proteins in formula are made from cows milk, and it takes time for babies stomachs to adjust to digesting them. Breast milk has evolved to provide the best nutrition, immune protection, and regulation of growth, development, and metabolism for the human infant. The health effects of breastfeeding are well recognized and apply to mothers and children in developed nations such as the united states as well as to those in developing countries. Figure 9 baby well positioned at the breast 15 figure 10 energy required by age and the amount from breast milk 21 figure 11 gaps to be filled by complementary foods for a breastfed child 1223 months 23 figure 12 back massage to stimulate the oxytocin reflex before expressing breast milk 32 figure feeding a baby by cup 33.
Breast milk consists of basic nutrients containing proteins, vitamins and carbohydrate. Nutrition is critically important for the optimal growth and development of premature babies ideal food for premature infants is mothers breast milk that should be fortified, or donated breast milk fortified prn, or else premature specialty formula successful use of breast milk depends on institutional. In addition to its health and nutritional benefits, breastfeeding can save lowincome, food insecure mothers the cost of infant formula so that money can be spent on food and other necessities. Breast milk provides the ideal nutrition for infants. Breast milk continues to be an important source of energy and high quality nutrients through the second. Benefits of breastfeeding there are many benefits to breastfeeding. Breast milk is rich in nutrients and antibodies and contains the right quantities of fat, sugar, water and protein. A quality improvement project to decrease human milk. Pdf importance of vacuum for breastmilk expression.
For most babies especially premature babies breast milk is easier to digest than formula. It is better to wear clothes which allow air to circulate and moisture to evaporate. I remember sitting on at my desk during lunch hour, eating with my left hand, finishing up charts with my right, and hunched over as i balanced the breast pumps with my knees. To make adequate amounts of iodine available for proper fetal and.
Iodine fact sheet for consumers nih office of dietary. Safe and appropriate complementary foods should be given from the sixth month of life while breastfeeding continues. Colostrum, which has also been called the first milk, liquid gold or immune milk is a clear, sticky, thick liquid that is produced by a mothers mammary glands after the first day of her babys birth. Your breasts will usually feel fuller in the morning and softer and less full at night. Importance of breast milk and breastfeeding for infants. Vitamin d is needed to support healthy bone development and to prevent rickets, a condition that causes weak or deformed bones. Becoming a mother is one of the best moment for a woman. Using the right breast pump can be crucial to keeping up your milk supply when you are. Mcclead jr, md, mha ed, a center for perinatal research, bresearch institute, and dquality improvement services, and edivision of. Breast milk is the milk produced by a lactating female.
Milk and dairy products food and agriculture organization. Milk and dairy products as part of the diet 103 abstract 103 4. The distribution pattern of fatty acids in breast milk is also sensitive to the mothers diet. The importance of breastfeeding the surgeon generals. These nutrients are major prerequisites to the health and survival of the baby. Vitamin d deficiency rickets among breastfed infants is rare, but it can occur if an infant does not receive additional vitamin d from foods, a vitamin d supplement, or adequate exposure to sunlight. Why breastfeeding is important after completing this session participants will be able to. They are able to naturally develop resistance to many illnesses including gastrointestinal illness, allergies, asthma, diabetes, obesity, childhood cancers, respiratory and urinary tract infections and sids. Breastmilk contains important components to protect and build the babys immature immune system.
Here are many other benefits of breast milk for a mother, her baby, and others. In fact, studies have shown that the nutritional makeup of a mothers breast milk adapts according to her infants individual needs at that time for his or her development. Breastfeeding also has economic benefits for the whole family and society. Enable mothers and their infants to remain together and to practice roomingin 24 hours a day. Minimum nipple length of seven millimeters has shown to be specific for a highly successful rate of breastfeeding. The benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby. Have a written infant feeding policy that is routinely communicated to staff and parents. For infants to survive, grow and develop properly they require the right proportion of nutrients. The who international code of marketing of breastmilk substitutes usually abbreviated to the who code was adopted in 1981 by the world health assembly wha to promote safe and adequate nutrition for infants, by the protection and promotion of breastfeeding and by ensuring the proper use of breast milk substitutes, when these are necessary. Breast milk is better for your baby than any other food or luid. For example, a full breast would provide a milk sample with a low fat content and a breast drained of milk would provide a milk sample with a high fat content.
Greater knowledge allows us to alter environment, nutrition, milking. How to express breastmilk arizona department of health. But breast milk is always ready and always at the right temperature ideal when youre tired. The energy breast milk provides is more efficiently utilised, than the energy provided by formula. A quality improvement project to decrease human milk errors in the nicu reena ozafrank, phd, rd, ca, b, rashmi kachoria, mph, a, b james dail, clssbb, mba, d jasmine green, rn, rncnic, bsn, e krista walls, rn, rncnic, bsn, e richard e. Even if you are able to do it for only a short time, your babys immune system can benefit from breast milk. Human milk is delivered without excess packaging or processing and thus contributes to the health of our planet. Results there was a difference in the average expenditure of breast milk after being pumped for 15 min using a portable double pumping arduino nano microcontroller with a value of. However, presence of minerals fulfills micronutrient needs and maternal antibodies improves the immune system inhibiting infantile infections like. Using a breast pump to express milk it is important to find a breast pump that will work best for your needs.