Why breast milk is best?

Human milk is the best food we can get a kid who already has been specifically designed to meet the needs of its kind. What makes it unique is the fact that it meets all aspects “Food-Link-stimulation-Immunity”, all vital needs of the newborn. Need to substitute any food have managed to meet as complete as mother’s milk.

Human milk is the ideal food for children in the first year of life, because:

* It is a complete food and provides all the nutrients the baby needs in the first months of life.
* The nutrient content is appropriate for the immaturity of the kidney and intestinal function, for the growth and maturation of his brain and as feedstock for the changes that your body is going to suffer along with the first year of life.
* Its components are in such proportion that none interferes with the absorption of another.
* The contribution of anti-infectious substances called immune globulin is the ideal complement to the immunological deficiencies of the baby in the early months.
* The chemical form in which they find iron and zinc is the optimum way to the best use.
* Breast milk provides a special type of carbohydrate, it is necessary for the formation of a protective intestinal flora that inhibits the development of harmful germs and parasites.
* Physical contact with the mother helps to strengthen the psycho-emotional link.
* The mothers who breastfeed typically have longer periods of infertility after birth than those who do not breastfeeding.
* The breastfeeding immediately after birth stimulates contraction of the uterus to return to its original size more quickly.
* This represents the most natural way to regain the weight after pregnancy, because the fat is consumed to enable the formation of milk.
* The mother’s milk is available at all times and in all places, at a temperature just and in a perfect state of health.
* Children are not breastfed have increased risk of acquiring a wide range of diseases such as diarrhea, eczema, colic, acute respiratory infection, acute totes media, bacterium and some types of meningitis among others.
* Several studies have shown a protective effect of breast milk against diseases that appear later in life, such as asthma, diabetes type I and autoimmune diseases.
* A mother brings her benefits: lower the risk of breast cancer, increase their self-esteem and strengthen the mother-son bond to promote skin to skin contact.
* Presents economic advantages, and that breastfeeding is much cheaper to feed the baby with breast milk substitutes. The cost of the extra food needed by the mother to produce milk is insignificant compared to the cost of milk formulas and the energy consumed for heating water, sterilizing bottles, and so on.
* A society and the state represent a major savings in health and to prevent the emergence of many diseases that require hospitalization and represent a significant cost to the community.

In addition, infants who are fed cow’s milk are more exposed to:

* At dehydrated, and they need to use more water from your body into the urine than those who take milk.
* At present low levels of calcium and that excess phosphorus from cow’s milk impedes the absorption of calcium.
* At diarrhea, since the type of intestinal flora that is formed when supplied with milk from cows not protect them as much as the flora which is formed with the milk.
* A suffer anemia because the iron of cow’s milk is not absorbed as efficiently as that of breast milk. Besides cow’s milk produces micro hemorrhage’s intestinal in infants that may also foster the emergence of anemia.
* The excess proteins from cow’s milk are eliminated in the urine in the form of ammonia can cause dermatitis in the genital area.

The cultural and social generate permanent changes in human beings that makes breast-feeding is not an instinctive behavior predominantly in men. So it is possible and very important, encourage, assist and teach the mother to breastfeed better, since the early months of pregnancy so that she and the child may enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding.