Lactation

What are the benefits of breastfeeding ? Here is a very comprehensive question, which you will most certainly ask yourself if you are still hesitating to breastfeed. So why breastfeed ? What are the benefits of breastfeeding, for your baby, as for you, his mother?

• Breast milk is the best food, it meets your baby's needs exactly.
• It helps awaken tastes , thanks to the diversity of your diet.
• Tailor-made milk , in quality and quantity. Breast milk is an evolving food : its formulation varies as the baby grows, during the day but also during the same feeding, to adapt perfectly to the baby's needs.
• Breastfeeding contributes to the proper development of the infant's immune system and also of its brain system with essential fatty acids and its digestive system. During the first years of life, babies exhibit immature immune defense systems, which makes them vulnerable to infection. Breast milk helps reduce this state of physiological immune immaturity .

Throughout your pregnancy, many emotions touched you, until the great hormonal upheaval of birth. Thanks to your emotions, you have developed an extraordinary bond that will continue, whether you are breastfeeding or not , between you and this little being that you are going to get to know. During feedings, your baby finds in these privileged skin-to-skin moments, familiar and reassuring elements : the sensation of his whole body snuggled up against you, the contact and warmth of your skin against his cheek, your smell, your voice, your heartbeat. Oxytocin, a relaxing hormone in milk and its familiar scent, are also reasons that can reassure your baby and contribute to his well-being .

Little by little, he will associate the pleasure and serenity of these moments withhis mother leaning over him: the mother's face will thus be intimately linked, for your baby, to a happy feeling. Breastfeeding allows you to create a very strong emotional bond with your baby: each caress, each look and each feeding create a unique bond between you. You both feel a great sense of well-being: you, by the appeasement that you envelop for your little one, and he by this renewed closeness with his mother.

The benefits of breastfeeding have immediate and unparalleled effects on the health of babies .

Many of you fear that you won't have enough milk to the point of having to give up breastfeeding, yet not enough milk is extremely rare. On the other hand, you may have temporary drops in lactation. Too much or not enough milk, problems with engorgement or cracks : to relieve these minor ailments, there are solutions. Find our Food Supplements for Breastfeeding in our online pharmacy.