فوائد الرضاعة بالانجليزي

 موضوع عن الرضاعة

بحث عن الرضاعة الطبيعية

مطويات جاهزة عن الرضاعة الطبيعية

تعريف الرضاعة الطبيعية

بحث عن الرضاعة في

كيفية الرضاعة الطبيعية من الثدي

اهمية الرضاعة الطبيعية للام والطفل

فوائد الرضاعة الطبيعية للام والطفل

اهمية الرضاعة الطبيعية للطفل

Breastfeeding, a blessing for mother and child

breastfeeding infant

To believe this strange habit, acquired more than seventy years ago, to feed babies with alternative milks, one might think that humanity is no longer part of the class of mammals.

Yet the infant always needs both to know the sweetness of the mother's breast and to eat this milk perfectly programmed by nature to meet its nutritional needs.

The benefits of breastfeeding

Without doubt it is not useless to recall the inconveniences of the bottle.

Today, it is unanimously agreed by the scientific world that industrial milk is much lower than breast milk and has serious consequences for public health, the health of children and same as that of the mother.

First, the composition of cow's milk, in terms of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids, as well as trace elements, is very different from that of human milk.

Then the artificial milk stimulates neither the immune system nor the intestinal flora.

Worse still, it contains many elements very indigestible for the baby whose digestive system is then constantly stressed and unable to defend itself.

As a result, artificial milk favors:

  → digestive and renal disorders,

  → infectious diseases,

  → allergies,

  → and even, in some cases, ulcerative necrotizing enterocolitis of the newborn,

  → Sudden infant death,

  → certain cancers

  → and insulin-dependent diabetes.

Breast milk is alive, that is to say, constantly changing from one suckling to another.

The baby draws different elements every day, including immunoglobulins and macrophage cells that will enable him to defend against pathogens and avoid many physiological dysfunctions.

In fact, breast milk is a health food of the highest order.

And then, the close contact with the mother also makes feeding a real psychotherapy.

Or at least gives the baby an emotional security that will never allow a bottle.

In addition, the breast does not interfere with the correct development of the palate and teeth, unlike the pacifier.

Finally, it is the health of the mother herself that the bottle endangers.

Because breastfeeding establishes a hormonal balance that prevents the return of diapers to occur just a few weeks after birth, as happens in case of artificial feeding of the baby.

While breastfeeding, the mother prevents both anemia and close pregnancies.

But some studies also show that not breastfeeding increases the risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and osteoporosis.

Recommendations of public health systems

The sad thing is that the bottle costs on average three times more than the breast.

We must pay to be in poor health!

But economically disadvantaged families are the first to be affected by this deplorable fashion.

The community also supports the costs of bottle feeding, since it entails a net increase of medicalization, even hospitalization.

In the United States, for example, it is estimated that $ 1.3 billion would be saved if babies were breastfed.

Finally, the planet also suffers from this waste, since the manufacture and transport of all these cans of milk and baby bottles pollute enormously.

It is for all these reasons, added to the health disorders, that the medical world, WHO and UNICEF in particular, regularly alert the public opinion and the governments about the dangers that the artificial milk makes weigh on the humanity.

After statistical studies clearly show that the decline in breastfeeding rate is directly linked to the increase in morbidity and infant mortality, recommendations have been made regarding the best possible diet for children, can be summarized in two points:

  → the first six of life, babies must benefit from exclusive breastfeeding

  → up to two years or older, young children should be breastfed while receiving adequate complementary foods.

This implies that, in the first six to nine months, water, herbal teas and fruit juices must not enter the baby's diet.

On the other hand, in the following months, supplementation of breastfeeding with adapted foods must in no way be assimilated to weaning, breast milk having to represent at least 50% of the total ration up to one year. then one-third to two years.

Innocenti Declaration (excerpt)

This statement was developed and adopted by the participants at the WHO / UNICEF meeting on "Breastfeeding in the 1990s".

She states that breastfeeding is a unique way of feeding the child, who:

  → provides infants with an ideal diet that promotes their growth and development

  → reduces the incidence and severity of infectious diseases, reducing morbidity and infant mortality

  → contributes to women's health by reducing the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and by increasing the interval between pregnancies

  → brings social and economic benefits to the family and the nation

  → gives a deep feeling of satisfaction to most women for whom the experience is successful

  → and research has shown that these benefits increase if infants are exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, and if subsequently, the mother continues to breastfeed while providing supplemental feeding ...

Decree 98-688 of July 30, 1998 (excerpt)

Art. 1st - All documentation for informational or educational purposes, both written and audiovisual, concerning the feeding of infants must include information on:

a / The benefits and superiority of breastfeeding

b / Mother's nutrition and how to prepare for and continue breastfeeding

c / The possible negative effect on breastfeeding in a partial bottle feeding

d / The difficulty of substituting breastfeeding for a diet using infant formula.

How to breastfeed?

What WHO also recommends is to learn about the functioning of the mammary gland and feeding.

Indeed, their lack of knowledge has led to and still leads to many erroneous behaviors ... up to that of feeding the baby bottle-feeding.

In the past, of course, we passed from mother to daughter a thousand years of knowledge about breastfeeding.

But today this knowledge is virtually lost, and is replaced, at worst, by total ignorance, at best by scientific knowledge and statistics.

We therefore know that the baby sucks on average eight to twelve times a day, and that during the first days the feeds last about ten minutes.

But these statistics obviously do not take into account peculiarities.

For example, the baby in constant contact with his mother, as is the case in Africa, can suckle every quarter of an hour.

In the West, babies sleep longer and suckle less frequently.

But this does not mean that they are set like clocks!

A baby may stop suckling for ten minutes and then resume breastfeeding.

Should we count one or two feedings?

This kind of question would of course not be needed if Westerners did not have this habit of wanting to control everything and this need to reassure themselves by trying to make everything predictable.

In the Western breastfeeding system, it is expected that an average of ten minutes of breast feeding is required every three hours.

It may be convenient, but it does not work like that!

In fact, it is the baby who must indicate the rhythm and duration of feeding.

It is according to his nutritional reserves, his food and emotional needs, his environment and his health, that he will claim the breast.

In a word: breastfeeding must be regulated at the request of the baby!

But this implies the absolute necessity of a close proximity between the child and his mother ... and a perfect listening on his part.

And weaning?

The first advice that could be given to mothers is not to succumb to this trend, also very Western, of thinking about weaning practically from the beginning of breastfeeding, as if it were necessary to foresee as quickly as possible the end of a chore.

Consequence: a lot of breastfeeding ends with a kind of failure, regret at not being able to breastfeed longer, or feeling that the baby did not want the breast any more, all feelings once again due to a lack of knowledge of the functioning of the breast and the baby.

It is true that some babies relax their interest in breast between four and five months, around seven months and between nine and twelve months.

But it should not be interpreted as a sign of weaning.

Conversely, between thirteen and eighteen months, the baby is often very attached to his mother, and it is not advisable to wean him during this period.

In general, the weaning must be a progressive detachment of the breast, programmed by the child ... when it was allowed to grow at its own pace.

According to Greiner, the word weaning covers four distinct practices:

→ supplying the child with other foods in quantities that are not expected to have a real nutritional impact

   → the donation of food for nutritional purposes, while continuing breastfeeding

   → replacing feedings with other foods

   → total cessation of breastfeeding.

The thing must be gradual, and only occur at a certain age.

The different anthropological studies agree that the natural age of weaning is between two and six years.

The range is wide, as we can see, which means that natural weaning is a bit of an adventure, the opposite of planning.