Feeding

How to successfully breastfeed?

Breastfeeding is a gift that every mom should be able to give to her baby. At Soin et Nature, we offer a wide choice of items suitable for breastfeeding, in order to make this moment a real moment of sweetness and complicity.

Many solutions exist to promote the well-being of mom and baby during feedings . For example, one of the major causes that can cause a mother to stop breastfeeding prematurely is a crack in the nipple ...

This painful phenomenon often occurs when the baby takes a bad position to suck, but also when excessive friction on the clothes which can greatly irritate them. Fortunately, there are many nipple treatments that can provide relief. Also, opting for breast tips or breastfeeding pillows is recommended .

Also, a low production of breast milk can cause a mother who wants to breastfeed her baby to stop everything. Fortunately, natural solutions exist to promote lactation :

• The breast pump can be a first solution to stimulate milk production.
• Breastfeeding tea or breastfeeding drink are also highly recommended natural solutions.
• Breastfeeding massage oil increases the secretion of milk as well as the flow of milk .

What are the benefits of breastfeeding for babies?

• Transmission of antibodies:

Whenever a mother is exposed to viruses or bacteria, her body produces antibodies that are found in breast milk and then passed on to the baby through breastfeeding. Your baby is therefore more resistant to external aggressions .

It is during the first days of its existence that your little one receives its highest concentration of antibodies through colostrum ; a yellowish liquid very rich in proteins, precursor of breast milk, essential for the proper development of its immune system.

Breastfeeding your baby therefore reduces the risk of contracting childhood illnesses and allergies such as: ear infections, respiratory tract infections (bronchitis, bronchiolitis), colds and infections, diarrhea, sudden infant death syndrome, allergies, celiac disease, intestinal inflammation, diabetes. .

However, if your baby did contract any of these illnesses, its severity would be greatly reduced.

• Contribution of essential nutrients :

Nature is well made, breast milk contains all the nutrients necessary for the good development of the child during the first months of his life, in proportions adapted according to his evolution:

• The first 3 days: the mother secretes the colostrum, providing the baby with a huge amount of immunoglobulins that cannot yet manufacture on their own, lactic ferments and enzymes.
• The following two weeks: the mother secretes so-called “transitional” milk, poor in lactase because the infant's lactase activity is still low.
• The following weeks: the milk becomes richer in fatty acids to meet all of its growing needs.

Unlike formula milk, the calorie content and composition of breast milk vary during each feed , but also throughout your breastfeeding period, to meet your baby's needs.

• Better assimilation of nutrients

Proteins from breast milk are perfectly assimilated by the baby avoiding too much strain on the liver. In addition, they are also better eliminated by the kidneys, which are not fully mature at birth.

A better assimilation of nutrients has the effect of avoiding painful colic, stomach aches or constipation.

• A comfort and a unique mother-child rapprochement

Breastfeeding is a privileged moment, a skin-to-skin contact where the child recognizes the smell of his mother and feels safe, in a little cocoon of warmth. Because a breastfeeding mother spends an average of 14 hours with her baby at the breast per day during the first months of breastfeeding. Moments of discussion throughout the day that create a unique bond between mother and baby .

You can find all the benefits of breastfeeding on our dedicated article.