10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding
Advantages
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #1: Antibodies
Breast milk provides antibodies that boost the immune system. This leads to decreased viral and bacterial infections in babies.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #2: Reduced Risk of SIDS
Bottle fed babies usually fall into a deep sleep, producing dreams. The dreams can start around the early morning, when infants are most likely to surrender to SIDS. Breastfed babies wake up more often, decreasing the chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The studies were done on newborns to three month old babies.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #3: Healthier Moms
Studies show that nursing your baby can reduce the risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Don't forget that it also helps moms lose weight!
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #4: Cheaper
This states the obvious. On average, it will cost a little over $100 per month to bottle feed your baby.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #5: No Menstruation
Most women do not get their period while nursing. What can beat that?
Disadvantages
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #6: It Can Hurt
This is especially true for first time moms. If nursing continues to feel extremely uncomfortable, it may mean improper attachment. Bleeding may occur if your baby's teeth come through early. There are ways to get around that, but it is a true test of will power.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #7: Pins N' Needles
When feeding time rolls around your breasts will take on that pins and needles feeling. It's uncomfortable at first, but you get used to it.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #8: Engorgement
Unfortunately if you haven't nursed or pumped in a few hours, your breasts will become enlarged and swollen. It is not a pleasant feeling. This usually occurs when you are trying to wean your baby.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #9: No Sleep
Again, breast fed babies are lighter sleepers. For the first few weeks you'll be woken up every two to three hours for a feeding. It can take between 15 and 30 minutes on each breast to feed. This doesn't leave a lot of time for sleep.
10 Things You Should Know About Breastfeeding #10: Ruined Shirts
First you feel the tingle in your breast, and then you feel the wetness on your shirt. Sometimes you just can't get to a feeding on time. Though embarrassing, there are insertable pads to keep this from happening.
Mother - infant bonding is what comes to mind when we think of breastfeeding. However, it is just as easy for moms who bottle feed to have this bond, too. Infants just want the comfort of knowing they are loved.
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Post a CommentAs to some of the other points in the article... breastfed babies do sleep more lightly, but that's because breastmilk is more easily digested than formula. Formula-fed babies tend to sleep longer because the formula just lays in their little tummies like a rock, not digesting. I'd rather my baby wake up frequently and get the nutrition she needs. Also, I never had one ruined shirt... nursing pads are inexpensive and easy to use. And the "pain" of breastfeeding should never happen if your baby is latching correctly and there are no other problems such as an infection.
Breastfeeding, not smoking, etc. REDUCE the risk of SIDS, but they don't eliminate the risk entirely. You should be proud that you did everything you could to reduce his risk instead of simply disregarding medical truth. One person, or even one small group of people, does not constitute a study. There are always variances. We still don't know a whole lot about SIDS, so there may be risk factors that we're still unaware of. Breastfeeding DOES reduce the risk of SIDS, but that doesn't mean that no breastfed baby will die of SIDS. Just as while breastfeeding makes kids healthier, that doesn't mean that breastfed kids never ever get sick. It's probabilities, not absolutes.
If all the above were true, then Brett would still be here because I did everything correctly by the set standards....again, most SIDS centered groups are to prevent the deaths of babies in any means possible. That's why I don't mind as much now because I know they are preventing some deaths; however, they cannot prevent SIDS deaths and since most moms are afraid of SIDS the tactics work in preventing unnecessary deaths.
So, please don't believe everything you read about SIDS but most importantly don't be passing the rumors on.......love ya
they tell you that 1. "not smoking" reduces SIDS, well it does reduce asthma and other breathing problems........2. wearing too much clothing can cause overheating...which would show up in an autopsy......3. sleeping on belly may cause suffocation....which will also show up on an autopsy report.....4. breastfeeding keeps baby awake.....there are a lot of babies that die while they are awake from SIDS because the entire body just shuts down so the baby doesn't have to be sleeping.....5. being a caucasean prevents SIDS....well you should see the majority in my SIDS group and the majority of women that I counsel.
In regards to #2, a friend wrote me this and I thought it very important to add: I really and truly do not agree with one of your statements, and like most moms in my SIDS group, we would all agree that don't believe what's reported by the media on breastfeeding protecting against SIDS. For 1. most of the moms I know were strictly breastfeeding like myself and that really pisses us off.....2. it's not a proven fact, it's recommended to scare moms and that's basically what it does....scare moms to breastfeed, the reality is.....there aren't a lot of things that can prevent SIDS, it's something biological and lots of studies are trying to find it out...most of the risk categories are said to protect the newborn's health and prevent suffocation, not actually SIDS. SIDS is an unknown cause of sudden dea th which is why autopsies cannot find anything in their reports.....all looks normal. Brett's tissues are in several studies and so far they can't find any abnormalities. For instance, the
That is exactly what I ended up doing with my son. My pediatrician almost had a fit though.
The no sleep issue can be countered by co-sleeping. My son still wakes often to eat at night but I barely wake for few seconds at a time.
Very informative article.