Tayasan, Negros Oriental -- Breastfeeding is a way of feeding a baby directly with milk from a woman's breasts. Breast milk, often known as mother's milk, is a type of milk produced by mammary glands. It contains all the essential nutrients in precisely the proper amounts and is easy to digest. Aside from the nutritional advantages, there's a bonus: Breastmilk also aids in the development and maintenance of your baby's immune system.
The Colostrum (also known as “first milk”) is a special type of milk mothers’ produce for their newborns just before giving birth. Breastmilk contains antibodies that can fight infection. Those antibodies are present in high amounts in colostrum. The mother can pass on some protection from infectious illnesses she had in the past, and those she gets while breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding helps fights infections.
Other proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and even white blood cells are found in breast milk and help to fight infection in a variety of ways. Breast milk travels directly to the stomach and intestine when the baby eats, making them particularly effective in combating gastrointestinal infections.
Breastfeeding has the probiotic factor.
Breastmilk helps the immune system. While it provides nutrients to the body it also gives good microorganisms, known as the human microbiome. It can help avoid illness for the long-term, as well as reduce the child’s chances of allergies, asthma, obesity, and other chronic disorders.
Breastfed newborns are less likely to get ear infections, vomiting, diarrhea, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and certain types of meningitis because of all these immunity-boosting elements in breast milk.
Breastfeeding during the pandemic?
COVID-19 has not been found to be transmitted through breastmilk or breastfeeding to date. Evidence suggests that the advantages of breastmilk much exceed the dangers of transmission and that antibodies found in breastmilk may assist an infant fight COVID-19 infection if he or she is exposed.
Follow Kumainment No. 2. Breastfeed exclusively in the first six months of the baby, then provide timely, appropriate, safe and adequate complementary foods while continuing breastfeeding until two years old and beyond. This is the best weapon against diseases, especially in infants! //ND II Raya Faith A. Luce
