Importance of Breastmilk


Importance of breastmilk




You will do everything to everything you can to get your baby healthy. All your concern is grow your baby healthy. But do you know which food is going to be the perfect covering shield for your baby ? Of course it is with its all protein, carbs, minerals and vitamins the breastmilk! How early your baby starts to suck breastmilk is better for the development. Especially if the baby gets enough weight on first 6 months there won’t be need for any supplemtry foods beside the breastmilk. The benefits of breastmilk got explained by Acıbadem Fulta Hospital’s kids health and sickness specalist DR. Ulku Tıraş.




1)Brestmilk for brain development


The development factors inside the breastmilk helps baby to develop organs like guts and the brain much better. And this will effect baby’s future health significantly.




2)Will cover the baby from diseases


Breastmilk has an effect that kills lots of bacteria and microorganisms.With the special enzymes breastmilk containes it prevents your baby to get diseases like measles, scarlatina and chichken pox that mother got infected with.




3) First step to prevent obesite


The first milk that you feed your baby will have high density of protein so it feels your baby full and baby won’t need to be fed too much thus decreasing the chance of obesite.




4) IQ increases


It is not certain why but babies that got fed with breastmilk increases their IQ levels. On a recent study in New zealend shows that babies that fed with breastmilk got their brain functions developed more than others and saw success on their school life




5) Prevents allergic reactions.


Kollostrum is the breastmilk that comes at the first days after birth. This milk prevents a lot of diseases and contains good microflora for baby’s gut. By doing that it prevents other harmful bacteria to get sucked inside the baby.




6)Prevents indigestion


All the nutrition inside breastmilk gets sucked into baby much more easily via breastmilk. By doing this it prevents baby to get diarrhea, constipation or colic diseases. And baby that got fed with breastmilk see less teeth gum problems, diabetes and less skin problems.




7)Protects kidneys


Kollostrum increase gut flow thus increasing the speed of baby’s pooping. And increases facotrs that covers against microorganism also decreases osmolarity so causing better kidney health.




8)Breastmilk is important for mouth health


Some babies can’t get fed breastmilk because of special situations. But premature babies under intensive care that cannot get fed by breastmilk needs breastmilk to clean their mouth.




9)Breastfeeding will bond you and your baby together


Brestfeeding will decrease your babies crying sessions and it will feel better by getting fed by the mother. Baby will get phsycological support after seeing mother around frequently after every cry.


10)Feed your baby with breastmilk to prevent breastcancer


Miraculous food brestmilk also found giving less chance of your girls to have breastcancer in the future and at the meantime it also decreases the chance of breastcancer for the feeding mother.




Do not have any fear of losing your breastmilk. This can cause a panic effect and sometimes block brestmilk from releasing. Especially premature babies can cause this milk to get delayed bot it gets easily compensated.