Introduction

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusive breast feeding for the first six months of the child's life and continue breast-feeding together with adequate complementary foods up to two years of age or older.

Benefits of breastfeeding

For children:

Protects against diseases and infectious diseases future, even in adulthood.

For the mother:

After childbirth, everything returns to normal: the involution of the uterus, reduced weight, blood loss.
You protects breast cancer and ovarian cancer and osteoporosis in menopausal.

For the family

It improves the self-esteem of mother and son.
It's free.

For the Company.

Savings in health care.
It reduces absenteeism caused by illness of children.
It is the only totally ecological food, does not pollute.

It is important:

That mother and son remain together after birth and the child must take the chest as soon as possible.
The child's mouth and the nipple covering much of the areola.
That does not give the child any other type of food.
The chest is a demand without schedules.

How get out milk and save:

Extraction:

It can be manual, without appliances (looking for someone to teach you how to do this), or milkextractor (manual or electric).

Technical and maintenance times:

Use small containers, clean, plastic or glass.
Do not use microwave to thaw, or the re-freeze later.
Freeze milk always freshly harvested.

Conservation:

6 to 8 hours at room temperature.
5 days in refrigerator at 4 ° C.
2 weeks in freezer inside the refrigerator.
3 months in separate freezer door.
6 to 12 months in separate freezer (-19 ° C)
Preserves milk until 24 h thawed in the refrigerator.
Ofrécela to drinking cup or spoon.

Introduction of other foods.

The introduction of other foods should not mean an end to breastfeeding:
It starts from 6 months, no hurry.
Start with one meal a day, either in fruit, vegetables, meat or cereal. Where has fully accepted, offers another meal in another takes than consecutively to the previous one.
If you can, also gives chest meals.
Continuous breastfeeding in the morning and at night.
You can prepare the porridge cereal with your milk.
Weaning should be voluntary, both for the mother and the child.

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Última modificació: 13 de octubre de 2008