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Why breastfeed?
Breast milk is the best food that a mother can give your newborn child. Considering not only its composition but also the emotional aspect and the emotional bond that develops between a mother and her breastfed baby is a special experience, unique and intense. There is strong scientific basis to show that breastfeeding is beneficial for the child to the mother and society in all countries.
Breast milk contains everything your child needs during the first months of life. to protect your baby against many illnesses such as colds, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, diarrhea, ear infections, meningitis, urinary tract infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, or sudden infant death syndrome the infant while the baby is breastfed , but also protects you from future diseases such as asthma, allergies, obesity, immune diseases such as diabetes, Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis and atherosclerosis or myocardial infarction in adulthood and fosters intellectual development.
The benefits of breastfeeding also extend to the mother . Women who breastfeed lose weight gained during pregnancy faster and harder suffering postpartum anemia, also have a lower risk of hypertension and postpartum depression. Osteoporosis and breast cancers and ovarian cancers are less common in women who breastfed their children. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Nutritional Advice for Pregnant Women
Good nutrition during the gestation period is essential. Women should take care of what you eat as this will also affect the baby. It is important to follow a balanced diet, varied and healthy during these 9 months is essential to avoid anything that might come to represent a danger to both.
Therefore, when shopping, it is important to choose fresh foods. Avoid pre-cooked and when we cook, it is best to make Grilled, baked, steamed or boiled. As for fried or sautéed foods it is best to take them only if necessary. If they can avoid, the better.
It is best to avoid fatty meats and sausages, smoked and salted fish and spicy. In the case of healthy fats such as olive oil, it is preferable to eat it raw in salads, vegetables or toast.
Urinary Infections During Pregnancy and How to Prevent It
Urinary tract infections are more common in women than in men, which is due among other things, that the urethra is shorter in females making it more prone to the transmission of bacteria.
Furthermore, in the case of pregnant women, these infections are compounded by the changes in the body, increase in hormones that make the kidney work harder or slow the weight exerted by the uterus on the bladder that makes you urinate more frequently usual.
To check for infections or if they persist too long, analysis of urine is included in all gynecological examinations throughout pregnancy to rank the importance and treatment as these infections can cause premature delivery reach.
The worst infection that you catch is that affecting the kidney
Given the possibility of it spreading to other body organs and the risk that entails for both mother and baby, hospitalization is necessary to deliver the drug intravenously.
Once the results are stable, will continue with oral antibiotic therapy.
Although there is a radical way to prevent infection, may be prevented by following certain points like
- Maximize the health of those areas of the bladder, vagina and anus, making it harder for bacteria
- Take extreme care with sex that often are mode of transmission of bacteria
- Drink plenty of fluids and eating vegetables to kill bacteria in the urine
- Do not hold the urge
- Dry the area very well and does not hold moisture (changed the bathing suit in the summer months after baths)
- Wear cotton underwear to allow perspiration
First visit to the obstetrician
Suspecting be pregnant, check with your doctor. It is important that pregnancy is controlled from the beginning. You see, in most cases, you need only follow the directions of your doctor to carry a pregnancy to term without risk. At your first visit to the doctor, being pregnant, do not forget to mention if you are taking any medication.
Surely the specialist you’ll be sorry, you take blood pressure, your heart rate and hear you perform a pelvic exam by vaginal similar to that makes you gynecologist. Because many problems of pregnancy can be inherited your doctor will ask you questions about your family history.
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It is mandatory to test the group B streptococcus in pregnant
In Argentina, the Senate became law on project that requires pregnant women traveling the last weeks of gestation, to be held screened for group B streptococcus The bacterium can cause premature labor and transmit serious diseases to the newborn, such as meningitis.
However, despite the importance of analysis, nothing has been said about that is included in the Mandatory Health Program (PMO), pre-paid social work, so its free of charge would not be guaranteed. The survey is done between weeks 35 and 37 of gestation, according to reports, has cost about 25 pesos. Article 3 of the standard refers to bacteriological examination and prophylaxis should be included in the routine, but makes no mention of who will bear the costs of analysis or further processing, if necessary.
B streptococcus bacteria, can be found in the digestive, urinary and genital tracts of adults, and although it causes no problems prior to pregnancy can cause serious illness in the mother and fetus during pregnancy, or even after birth to a newborn. The analysis consists of a swab in the rectal or vaginal area of women for the presence of the bacteria.
According to surveys, one in five pregnant women have GBS in the rectum or vagina, which can cause a serious infection of the placental membranes called chorioamnionitis, postpartum infection and even premature birth. The bacterium is, along with pneumonia and meningitis, one of the most common factors that endanger the lives of newborn babies.
Urinary tract infections during pregnancy
The urinary and vaginal infections are among the most frequent pathologies in pregnancy. The biggest risk they entail is the appearance of contractions with the risk of premature birth.
Whenever you perform an early diagnosis, treatment is highly effective and safe for baby (with antibiotics in the first case and local antibiotics or antifungals in the second as the germs that cause). Few medications for those conditions that can be used without deleterious effects during pregnancy therefore should not be self-medicate or take advice from anyone other than the doctor.
Considering all this is very important that any doubt or symptoms consult the doctor because the consequences can be important and timely solution is easy.