If you are able to breastfeed your premature baby, there's some good news: According to a new study of 77 preterm infants in the NICU at St. Louis Children's Hospital, preemies who were fed mostly breast milk
during the first month of life appear to have more robust brain growth than those who were not.
Fortunately, my little guy is making leaps and bounds each and every day, so I can utilize the crib in the nursery (and video monitor) and boppy pillow (which neither of us were ready
for during his first month of life).
Breastfeed Yes, hello, Captain Obvious here, but breastfeeding creates little - to - no waste, unless you're one of my kids blowing out sleepers at an alarming
rate during their first months of life.
Full - term, newborn babies usually nurse eight to 12 times per
day during the first month of life, according to KidsHealth, who add that you should feed your newborn «on demand.»
The baby continues to get antibodies from the mother through the placenta in order to be able to combat the infections after birth and to develop his or her own immune
system during the first months of life.
In an article written by NPR health policy correspondent Patti Neighmond, Dr. Nicolas Stettler, a pediatrician at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, points out that formula - fed babies often gain weight
quickly during the first months of life.
It was previously thought that this bond must be
formed during the first months of life but we now know that this bond can form at later stages of development as has been observed in the bonding between adoptive parents and children who were adopted later in life.
Over two thirds of these deaths, which are often associated with inappropriate feeding practices such as bottle - feeding or untimely and inadequate complementary foods,
occur during the first months of life.
Although maternal Abs transferred across the placenta are important to protect
infants during the first months of life, several reports have indicated that maternal Abs interfere with the development of infant immune responses.
Feeding premature babies mostly breast
milk during the first month of life appears to spur more robust brain growth, compared with babies given little or no breast milk, finds researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
During the first month of life, your newborn will spend much of the day sleeping or seeming drowsy.
And
during the first month of life, your baby will learn by interacting with you.