Breastfeeding
Breastfeed is the best choice you can make for yourself and your baby. When you are pregnant, your body especially your breast are changed to be more suitable for your baby. Your breast grows, the number and size of your milk ducts increase due to change in hormones.
Hormones have two jobs here :
- Allow proteins, fats, and sugars from your blood supply to make breast milk in your milk-producing glands.
- Prevent breast milk from being released until your baby is born
Breastfeeding has more benefits for you and your baby, maybe encourage you to decide to breastfeed.
Breastfeeding benefits for you
- Help to create a special bond between you and your baby
- Help to burn calories and lose weight you gain during pregnancy.
- Help to lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, breast, and ovarian cancer
- Breastmilk is always available at the correct temperature.
- When you start to breastfeed you will feel pain like period cramps this is due to your uterus contract to its normal size before pregnancy.
Breastfeed benefits for your baby
- Your first milk helps your baby’s digestive system to work better
- Breast mill improves your baby’s brain development.
- The nutrients in breast milk are better for your baby than infant formula
- Breast milk is full of antibodies that help your baby’s immune system to fight infections
- Your baby has a lower risk of asthma, allergies, sudden infant death syndrome, type 2 diabetes, childhood obesity. Don’t be afraid your baby will take his needs from you so you must take care of yourself mentally and physically.
Breastfeeding is a good and brave decision, you’ll be exhausted but it is all for your tiny baby.
Reference: patient information from ( the Brooklyn hospital center )
