Childbirth Preparation
Benefits of breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is one of the pillars in the baby’s development, and influencing key issues such as nutrition, immunization, bonding between mother and son, among others. It is shown that the best food that a mother can give her child during the first months of life is breast milk.
Here are some of the advantages of breastfeeding:
- Breast milk always maintains the ideal temperature, until it has been manually extracted, while going directly from the breast to the baby’s mouth.
- You can feed your baby anywhere, anytime, as appropriate, hygienic and sterile.
- The most complete food you can give your baby as it contains absolutely all the nutrients he needs.
- With Breastfeeding develops a strong bond between mother and child, important element in the baby’s emotional development.
- Means a significant savings in the household economy, and it’s free.
-Breast milk and colostrum to a greater extent, helps develop your baby’s immune system, protecting it from infections.
- The packaging is nice and warm for your baby.
- It will help you regain your physical and hormonal condition after delivery.
On time to feed your baby, in fact it is recommended that there is one, the best thing to do is give your breast on demand, ie each time your baby through your tears, let you know hungry and that time has come to eat, he will be marking their own pace according to their nutritional needs.
Breast milk is the best food for babies
The milk is the best food that a mother can give your child newborn. Not only for its composition, but also the bond that develops between mother and baby during the act of breastfeeding. Because it contains everything a child needs during the first months of life, breast milk protects the baby against many illnesses such as colds, pneumonia, diarrhea, ear infections, urinary tract infections and even prevent future as other diseases asthma, allergies, obesity, etc..
However, breast milk is not only good for the child, but also for the mother. Women who breastfeed lose weight gained during pregnancy more quickly, and hardly suffer from anemia, hypertension and postpartum depression.
Advantages of breastfeeding
One of the advantages of breastfeeding is that breastfeeding helps the mother lose weight faster, because a lot of energy from fat that is gained during pregnancy. Adding even more benefits, one can say that Breast milk is an organic food. Not manufactured, packaged or not transported, thus avoiding energy waste and pollution of the environment. For the family is a great savings. Breast milk is not an expense and above all, is the best way to feed your baby. Read the rest of this entry »
Breastfeeding may prevent obesity
We always say it’s much better to breastfeed the baby, because it is the best way to protect against illness and come out stronger, come on, that is the best food in the first months of life. Well, now we have discovered that the best way to prevent obesity in children.
This is due to leptin, because its function is to reduce appetite and increase the body’s energy expenditure. So, people who are obese do not have enough leptin, so your body is not prepared for calorie diets. It is therefore important that young children are given chest.
You know when you are breastfeeding feeding mother must be very careful, with a balanced diet and healthy, but yes, no dieting during pregnancy.
Benefits Breastfeed for Mother and Baby
It is giving the milk from mother to baby from the moment of birth through two years of life, preferably. Once you have given birth to the baby, the pituitary gland (hypophysis) begins to increase the amount of production of a hormone called prolactin, which stimulates breast cells. These cells begin to absorb nutrients from the bloodstream and use it to produce milk.
Since this process takes very little time, the first days after birth your breasts produce a fine white fluid, called colostrums. Since milk, colostrums are nutritious and contain antibodies (defenses against diseases that contain the mother). After 3 or 5 days produced milk. Prolactin controls the amount, to the point that the more milk the baby takes, the more prolactin pituitary and produce more milk will be.
When the baby stops sucking, milk production ceases in a week or two. The flow of milk is controlled by the reflection of closure. Otherwise the milk would be leaving continuously from the breast. When the baby sucks the nipples respond by sending sensory impulses to the hypothalamus in the brain. The hypothalamus immediately directed to the pituitary gland to produce hormones (oxytocin) that travel through the bloodstream.
When they get to the breasts, the cell surrounding the socket, where milk is stored, and contract and thus leave the milk duct. The whole process takes 30 to 60 seconds. Once the milk, the reflection of “stop” and “march” is easily triggered. Often the same sound of crying stimulates reflection. However, stress can interfere with the reflection. Read the rest of this entry »
Breastfeeding
Buenos Aires health program launched a prevention campaign
Breastfeeding could save each year, the lives of some 1.3 million children a year, said the World Health Organization.
The activity worldwide, aims this year to reinforce the importance of breastfeeding to save lives in situations marked by natural disasters, wars or pandemics, such as influenza A H1N1.
“The immune system during pregnancy, is naturally suppressed, why women are more vulnerable to infections during this period,” said Flavia Ranieri, Provincial Program Coordinator Maternal and Child Health Ministry of Buenos Aires Province of Argentina, referring to pregnant women as a group at risk.
In this sense, Health Program recommends Aires “pregnant women to continue their monitoring of pregnancy and addressed, if possible, in the health center (CAPS) closest to your home.”
“From go to the hospital, pregnant women with febrile symptoms and can not wait to request priority attention,” reports the same health program.
Do not stop breastfeeding even when they have flu symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
Month 4: Excess
You begin to be properly installed in your pregnancy, it becomes more and more comfortable. Let us guide you calmly listen to your body.
Side Baby: The time for finishing
For the rapid upheaval of the first three months, followed a long period finishes. The fetus is improving, his face is affirmed, in a word it is humane. The fetal head is recovering and seems smaller. Members stretch, legs are now longer than the arm. The liver works. The fetal skin is covered with fine down called “lanugo.” The hands are well trained, hair and nails grow. He begins to suck his thumb or even a toe. At the 17th week of pregnancy, the fetus is about 15 cm and weighs 200 g.
Side Mom: Time of 1st shots
Some of you feel the first kicks of the baby. Your uterus grows, it is now the size of a melon, where sensations of stretch in the groin. Your belly was well rounded and your pregnancy begins to show.
Tip: Constipation
Many pregnant women suffer from constipation. To avoid this, use a diet rich in fiber (prunes, greens …). The morning fasting, drink a full glass of water and continue to drink during the day at least 1.5 liters of water rich in magnesium. Above’re exercising. Nothing better than walking to avoid this.
Conduct of normal childbirth
You are at the end of your pregnancy, you lose water or you experience painful contractions and close it’s time to leave for maternity. From your arrival at the facility in your room with your baby, this is what happens.
The arrival at the maternity
Upon your arrival, a midwife is your constant (voltage, temperature) and considers the cervical dilation. She puts on your arm a catheter to be used in cases of infusion and install two sensors in your stomach that monitoring records uterine contractions and the baby’s heart.
The early work
You are then installed in work room. You can get up and do exercises with a ball.
Every hour, a midwife measure cervical dilation and takes your constants. Of regular monitoring can estimate a healthy baby.
Gradually the contractions become more frequent and painful.
Namely: if the expansion is too slow, your baby may suffer. The wise woman you are given a product to accelerate the frequency and intensity of contractions. The contractions can cause vomiting.
Epidurals
The cervix is dilated to 3 cm: it offers the epidural you will give birth without pain. An anesthetist practice then a sting in your back, place a catheter into the spine and injects the anesthetic: your pain fade in 10 minutes.
Once the epidural placed, you can not move, eat or drink. You are under continuous monitoring.
Namely: You can request the epidural until 7 or 8 cm dilated. Make up your time!
Expulsion
When the cervix is fully open, it fades away undertakes baby and you feel an urge to push. This expulsion.
The midwife then install the brackets at the end of the bed to elevate your legs.
You should push strongly to the rhythm of contractions. This stage lasts about half an hour. The portion of the head is the hardest, then the body comes alone. Sometimes you make an incision of the perineum (episiotomy) to prevent tearing.
Namely: the gynecologist obstetrician is called in case of complications, if any need to use forceps or suction cups to help your baby out.
The issue
Your baby is born but it is not finished: it is the placenta. This phenomenon usually occurs without effort 20 to 30 minutes later.
Baby First Aid
Immediately after birth, your spouse can cut the cord.
A medical team takes care of your baby and unclog his airway by suctioning the mucus in his nose and mouth. Your baby is weighed and examined from every angle! Fontanelle, hips, genitals, shoulders, abdomen … The midwife then took his temperature and it takes a few drops of blood.
Once dressed and his ID bracelet in place, your puppy may find your arm.
Namely: we often measure the baby the next day.
And the mother?
Meanwhile, you are not forgotten! The most important thing is to check that all the placenta was expelled. The stitches are made in cases of episiotomy. After two hours of monitoring, you regain your room with your baby.
These are: the average labor lasts 12 hours for women giving birth to their first child and 8 hours for others.