Evan Brand: I will say one last
thing about breast milk and this is probably gonna only apply to maybe just a few listeners, but there are breast milk donation services out there, where for some reason if the mother is just too busy, she is working too much, I've seen women going and getting breast milk from other moms.
That's the amazing
thing about breast milk; it evolves to meet the needs of the child it's nourishing.
One great
thing about breast milk is its ability to «keep.»
The amazing
thing about breast milk is that it changes to meet your baby's needs.
The greatest
thing about breast milk is that as your baby grows, the components automatically change to supply your child with what is needed most as she grows.
Well, the amazing
thing about breast milk is it is loaded with antibodies which fight off bad bacteria.
Not exact matches
So first
thing is that a
breast feeding mom really needs
about an extra 300 to 500 calories per day that she needed over what she needed to maintain her pre-pregnancy weight to really keep a sturdy
milk supply.
While there is no reason to be concerned
about the safety of using donated
breast milk from a trusted source, it is important to keep a few
things in mind when making the decision to feed your baby donated
milk.
Hands down, the best
thing about breastfeeding is that the
breast milk helps strengthen the child's immune system and that the amount of
milk adapts to their age and needs.
So, I just wanted to ask you all, what - have you ever heard
about how people have used
breast milk to heal different
things?
So, that was
about after 3 months since so that took a while for me to adjust to and just realized the most important
thing is for her to get the
breast milk it didn't matter how?
Other
things that worked is to make sure
milk is warm enough, put baby in swing with mobile on as a distraction and she is semi-upright, have baby in a good mood (feed her just after she gets up from a well - rested nap; and wait
about 15 min longer than her regular
breast feeding schedule so she's hungry.
It's specific for how old they are and so it's giving them everything that they need and then obviously, as baby gets older, they start taking in more complementary foods and
things like that, over
about six months old, but essentially, your
breast milk is growing with your baby and so it's easier to digest, it's....
But it goes a little bit beyond that because the creators are actually registered nurses and International Board Certified Lactation Consultants and so some of the
things that they've included in here, they are
about, for example, the importance of
breast milk, its affects on mother's health as well as, I love this section, I know I'm supposed to share what I love
about it later.
Things I loved: ~ didn't drown my daughter - she can eat at her pace ~ even though there are 3 parts to the nipple, it's still very easy to take apart and clean ~ due to vacuum pressure being needed,
milk does not leak out ~ my daughter switches seamlessly between this bottle and my
breast then back again ~ uses the same bottles that Medela pumps use I was worried
about trying this bottles at first due to the price being high and seeing reviews
about other babies not taking the bottle.
One
thing I find really important to help new mothers overcome is the worry
about how much
milk their baby is getting at the
breast after they've seen how much their baby gets from a bottle.
Veronica Gradeja: That was one of the
things that I saw as being a plus too some where I read
about breast milk filling the nutritional gap your toddler has and so even on the days when she is not sick I feel like this is the perfect liquid that my body is made for her to I know what she eats and some days she has a huge appetite and some days she just really doesn't.
Once I really had
things down, I began combination feeding —
breast milk whenever I was with my son but formula when I wasn't — starting around the time he was
about 6 months old (replacing pumped
breast milk with formula bottle by bottle) and then full - time when he was
about 10 months old.
Well, looking at the 10 steps I failed at: — # 6 nothing other than
breast milk (gave hungry baby formula b / c I was too tired and drugged up to nurse more than 5 minutes)-- # 7 rooming in (being tired and drugged up I actually wanted to sleep)-- # 9 no pacifiers (I would rather baby have the SIDS prevention and soothing that comes from sucking)-- # 4 initiate breastfeeding within 30 minutes of birth (that C - section
thing where they sliced my guts open interfered with that timing)-- # 10 I was referred to the support group but sure as hell didn't go (because I deemed healing at home from my surgery more important than being browbeaten
about how I was feeding my baby).
infantreflux: Ok Jamie,
about testing other
things in addition to stool testing; let's start with
breast milk?
Pumping at a location where you don't normally pump, without the comforts of your pumping station and setup for storing
milk and washing pump parts is one of the more stressful
things about figuring out how to travel with
breast milk.
SUNNY GAULT: Asparagus was one of those
things for me and I think that was more
about does that change what the
breast milk taste like a little bit, I know all our food kind of does, but that seems to be one that once I had asparagus and then I breastfed, you know, I don't know the amount of time after words, but my kids were kind of looking at me a little strange.
While experts agree that
breast milk is the best
thing to feed your baby, check out our myths and facts
about breastfeeding for more information on the benefits that are supported by science, and those that need more research to confirm one way or the other.
Talking
about breastfeeding, whenever I opened a book
about it, I got slammed in the face by
things such as» of course you can't wear black when you are breastfeeding, you will be covered in baby
milk — and other
things — all the time», «drooling babies will ruin your clothes, so don't bother dressing up», and of course «having to take your
breast out every three hours doesn't make wearing anything fashionable very appealing».
A pesky legal action by Lady Gaga's lawyers aside, a U.K. ice creamery has one less
thing to worry
about now that local officials have deemed the business's product made with human
breast milk safe for consumption.