Parenting Tips - Lean Back to Breastfeed

Parenting Tips - Know that breast is the Best

22 Strategies for Soothing a Colicky Baby ~ 5. Adjust your diet if you're breastfeeding

If you think that your baby may be sensitive to something in your breast milk, try eliminating dairy products (milk, cheese, yogurt) for a couple of weeks, which is how long it takes for the cow's milk protein to work its way out of your milk.

If that doesn't do the trick, you might take a look at spicy foods, wheat products, nuts, strawberries, cruciferous vegetables (such as cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower), garlic, caffeine, and alcohol. Stop eating likely offenders for a few days, then introduce them one at a time, waiting to see if your baby reacts to one item before introducing the next. The process may take a while, but if it saves your baby any crying time at all, it's worth it.

[source: babycentre.com]

Breastfeed Working Mom (IV) - Should Breast Pumping be Painful?

Should Breast Pumping be Painful? The first few times you pump may feel uncomfortable, but should not be painful, result in sort nipples, or draw blood. Pain, sore nipples, and nipple irritation or bleeding may be signs of a serious problem. If you are injured or experience persistent pain or bleeding when using your breast pump, contact your doctor immediately. Who Should I Contact if I Need Help with My Breast Pump? If you are having trouble using your pump, a qualified health care professional may be able to help you. If your pump is not working, contact the manufacturer. Check the box or call information for the manufacturer's contact information. [Source: Breastfeeding.com]

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Breastfeed Working Mom (III) - Cleaning A Breast Pump

Can I Sterilize My Breast Pump At Home?

It is impossible to completely sterilize your breast pump at home. Some hospitals offer free or fee-based sterilization services using an autoclave meant for sterilizing reusable surgical tools and hospital equipment.

Not even boiling them at home will completely sterilize breast pump parts. However, you can keep your breast pump safe and sanitary by effectively washing away germs and bacteria after each use.




General Tips for Cleaning Your Breast Pump

Consult the instruction manual included with your breast pump for the manufacturer-recommend method of cleaning. Keep in mind that not all pieces of a breast pump are meant to be washed. Electrical units and batteries should be wiped down after use, but never submerged in water.

Typically, a pump must be taken apart before appropriate pieces are washed. Most washable pump pieces can be cleaned by hand using soap and hot water. Some pumps can be put in the dishwasher. Consult your instruction manual to make sure pieces are dishwasher safe before you put them in the dishwasher.




Basic Cleaning Method

• Take apart the pump. Consult the instruction manual to determine which parts should be washed.
  
  
• Wash each piece separately using liquid dishwashing soap and plenty of warm water.
  Rinse each piece thoroughly with hot water for 10 -15 seconds.
  
  
• Place the pieces neatly on a clean paper towel or in a clean drying rack and allow them to air dry.
  
  
• Avoid using a cloth towel to dry your pump because they can carry germs and bacteria that are harmful to your breast milk and your baby.
  
  
• Once the pump is dry, assemble it before storing. Try not to touch the inside of any parts that will come in contact with your milk the next time you pump.

Source: Breastfeeding.com]

The Secret of ‘P’ Reveal

‘P’ in our context is stand for 'Perfect Solution for Breastfeed Working Mom' and 'Perfect Fit for Natural Parenting'.

In order to encourage newly give birth mom to continue breastfeed, to continue giving their best to their beloved child once return to work and to encourage natural parenting practices, we have come out P2 – P6 package deal for you.

Each package deal has been carefully thought, design and has a logic behind it. For example, Philips Avent breastpump is package with Stylo Mama Shoulder Bag (notebook backpack like design) + Safety Plus Breastmilk Storage BPA Free Bottle (pack of 8) + Stylo reusable MAMA Gel Ice (cold Pack) + Stylo Mama Cooler A+ Avent Airflex Feeding Bottle (125ml/4oz x 2 ).

This package is called P6 which come with 6 essential items you need to continue breastfeed when you return to work.

For more packages deal, click here or click at Package Deal category. We will package more and more good deals for you

Breastfeeding - Cuts Cancer Risks in Mothers (II)

Suckling helps prevent post-partum haemorrhage

Nursing her baby causes the mother's body to release oxytocin, which stimulates contractions which help shrink the uterus back to pre-pregnancy size while expelling the placenta.

These contractions also shut off the maternal blood vessels that formerly fed the baby and discourage excessive bleeding. Woman who choose not to breastfeed must be given synthetic oxytocin to insure against haemorrhaging.

Breastfeeding decrease insulin requirements for breastfeeding mothers who are diabetics.

Breastfeeding is a natural contraceptive

This is true only if you are exclusively breastfeeding, and have not gotten your period back following childbirth. Night nursing encourages longer amenorrhoea (periodlessness). If you really don't want to get pregnant again, use some back up birth control even if you haven't gotten your period again. You will have no way of knowing when your first ovulation will occur, and by the time you figure it out you may be expecting! Still, generally speaking, breastfeeding contributes to optimum child spacing.

Protects you against anaemia (ifon deficiency)

Since many exclusively breastfeeding mother do not begin to menstruate for a year or longer, their iron stores are not depleted by monthly bleeding.

Self confidence booster for mom

There is nothing more amazing than looking at plump 6-month=old baby and knowing that the only nutrition this happy little creature has received has come from your own body.

[Source:CAP GUIDE: Breastfeeding makes your child more intelligent & healthy]

Breastfeeding - Cuts Cancer Risks in Mothers (I)

Breastfeeding reduces your risk of breast cancer

A fishing community living on boats in the delta of the Pearl River, Hong Kong, always breastfed their babies from one breast only, the right one, because their dress traditionally opened this side.

In a study of the relation between breastfeeding and cancer on the womenfolk there done by doctors in 2 hospitals in Hong Kong, it was found that 27 out of 34 women over 55 had breast cancer in the breast which they had not used for feeding.

Not breastfeeding increase your risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Not breastfeeding increase your risk of developing endometrial cancer.

Breastfeeding helps you get back into shape

Breastfeeding requires an average of 500 extra calories per day. Mothers who breastfed exclusively or partially had significantly larger reductions in hip circumference and were less above their pre-pregnancy weights at 1 month post -partum than mothers who fed formula exclusively.

Suckling helps shrink your uterus after childbirth

Nursing will help you to regain your figure more quickly also because the process of lactation causes the uterus (which has increased during pregnancy to about 20 times its normal size) to shrink more quickly to its pre-pregnancy size.

On the other hand, the uterus of the non-breastfeeding mother will never shrink back to its pre-pregnant size. It will always remain slightly enlarged.

[Source:CAP GUIDE: Breastfeeding makes your child more intelligent & healthy]

Formula For Disaster (II)

Formula feeding increase baby's risk of ear infections

According to a 1994 study, otitis media (ear infection) is up to 3-4 times more prevalent in a formula-fed infants. In another study of Canadian Eskimos, it was found that middle ear infections where 5 times as common in the bottle-fed.

Formula-fed babies have a higher risk of developing certain childhood cancers (eg:lymphomas)

• A Lancet study found that bottle-fed children have twice the risk of getting cancer before they reach 15, compared to babies breastfed 6 months or more.
  
  
• A 1995 Swedish study has the answer: Mother's milk induce cancer cells to take their own lives!

According to 1993 study, formula feeding may increase risk of sudden infant death syndrome.

Formula-fed babies are more at risk for obesity in later life.

Formula For Disaster (I)

Formula feeding increase Baby Girls' risk of developing breast cancer in later life

Woman who were formula-fed as infants have higher rates of breast cancer as adults. For both pre-menopausal and post-menopausal breast cancer, woman who were breastfed as children, even if only for a short time, had 25% lower risk of developing breast cancer than woman who were bottle-fed as infants.

Formula feeding increase risk of baby developing Type 1 (juvenile, insulin-dependent) diabetes

The result of a 1994 study in Finland suggest that introduction of dairy products at a young age and high milk consumption during childhood increase the level of cow's milk antibodies in the children;s systems.

This factor is associated with the increased risk of insulin dependent diabetes.


Formula feeding increase chances if baby developing allergies

Babies in a highly allergic family are "potentially allergic infants". According to a study, they run a 60% risk of developing one or other allergic disease notably asthma, eczema, hay fever and allergic rhinitis.

However, if the mother breastfeeds, and during pregnancy and lactation avoids any foods (especially eggs), the baby's allergy risk drops to a low 15%.

BREAST MILK IS THE PERFECT BABY FOOD

Breast Milk is Superior Infant Food

No one has ever proved otherwise. The highest praise a formula manufacturer can give his product is that it is "most like mother's milk" or "nearer to mother's milk" - there is nothing suprior.

Breast milk always has the right propotions of fat, carbohydrates and protein. Formula companies are constantly adjusting these proportions looking for the best composition.

The reality is that a mother's milk composition changes from feeding to feeding depending on the needs of her child.

Infant formula can never duplicate human milk, which contains at least 100 ingredients not found in formula. Among them are living cells, hormones, active enzymes, immunoglobulins and compounds with unique structures - all of which cannot be replicated in infant formula.

Breast milk is more digestible than formula

Babies can digest human milk more easily than the milk of other animals, probably because human milk contains an enzyme that aids in this process. Breast milk forms softer curds in the infant's stomach than cow's milk (the basis for most formula) and is more quickly assimilated into the body system.

While it contains less protein than does cow's milk, virtually all the protein in breast milk is available to the the baby. By contrast, about half the protein in cow's milk passes through the baby's body as a waste product. Similarly, iron and zinc are absorbed better by breastfed babies.

Perfect food for sick baby

When a formula-fed baby gets a gastrointestinal ailment they are usually put on an artificial electrolyte solution because formula is too hard for them to digest. Breast milk, however, is easily digested, and soothing to the intestines, so there is no need for artificial and expensive electrolyte solutions.

If a baby gets a respiratory illness, formula may cause even more mucus.In contrast, breast milk contains antibodies to these ailments, as well as being highly digestible and not contributing to excess mucus formation.

Breast milk contains no genetically engineered materials

Most consumers are completely unaware of how much genetically engineered food they are consuming because these foods are usually no labelled as such.

Genetic ID, a company in Fairfield, Iowa, tested 4 soy-based baby formulas for genetically engineered ingredients. All four, Carnation Alsoy, Similac Neocare, Isomil and Enfamil Prosobee, tested positive ("Biotechnology's Bounty", M.Burros, New York Times, 21.5.1997)

Contains no synthetic growth hormones

Since many cows in the US are now routinely ingesting synthetic growth hormones to artificially increase their milk production, it stands to reason that these hormones are also getting into the US formulas, some of which are exported here.

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Breastfeeding - Fights Diseases (Part III)

Natural pain relief for baby

Breast milk actually contains chemicals that suppress pain (endorphins).Many a bruise or scrape has been soothed away almost instantly by a few moments of nursing. If you choose to have your child vaccinated, it is a good idea to nurse immediately after he/she receives a vaccination. This soothes the hurt.

Breastfeed babies get fewer cavities

Bottle-fed babies are at increased risk for baby bottle caries, a destructive dental condition which occurs when a baby is put to bed with a bottle containing formula, milk, juice or other fluids high in carbohydrates. Expensive and extensive dental repair may be required.

If the teeth come in straight, there's no need to fix them-meaning less money spent on corrective orthodontics treatment.

Less chance of baby getting eczema

• According to 1995 Lancet study, breastfeeding for 6 months can prevent eczema in babies during the first 3 years.
• Another study published in the British Medical Journal found that eczema was less common and milder in babies who were breastfed (22%). Instead, in infants fed casein hydrolysate, soymilk, or cow's milk, 21%, 63% and 70% respectively developed atopic eczema.
• An American study that followed over 20,000 babies for 5 years found that there were 7 times as many babies with eczema in the bottle-fed group as in those completely breastfed. And babies given some breast and some bottle milk were twice as likely to get eczema as the totally breastfed ones.

Less chance of hernia

Breastfeeding is protective against inguinal hernias. For unknown reasons breastfed babies experience significantly fewer of them.

Decreased risk of baby developing urinary tract infections.

Breast milk is good for combating eye infections

Breast milk contains natural antibiotic qualities, and many mothers swear that a squirt in the irritated eye of their baby has cleared up the problem in no time.

Breast milk has antibacterial properties, so breastfed babies have fewer illnesses

About 80% of the cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses. Breastfed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illness, including pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza, ear infections and German measles.

Furthermore, mothers produce antibodies to whatever disease is present in their environment, so mother's milk is custom-designed to fight the diseases their babies are exposed to as well.

Breastfed babies are healthier overall and thus require fewer doctor visits.

Breastfed babies have great skin

This is not based on a formal study. Check out the skin of breastfed baby and see what you think.

Breastfeeding - Fights Diseases (Part II)

Breastfeeding protects baby against vision defects

In a study in Bangladesh, a breastfeeding was a protective factor for night blindness among preschool-aged children in both rural and urban areas. Breast milk is generally the main, if not the only source, of Vitamin A during a child's first 24 months of life (or for the duration of breastfeeding).

Breastfeeding decrease chances of maternal osteoporosis in later life

The odds that a woman with osteoporosis did not breastfeed her baby was 4 times higher than for a control woman.

Dr. Alan Lucas of the MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Center if London, found that 8-year-olds who were fed formula rather than breastfeed as infants, had less developed bone mineralization than those fed breast milk.

Breastfed babies have less chance of cardiopulmonary distress while feeding

According to a 1990 study, bottle-fed babies are at increased risk of cardiopulmonary disturbances, including prolonged airway closure and obstructed breaths due to repeated swallowing.

Breastfeed babies have less chance of developing ulcerative colitis

This is disease of later life (a severe inflammatory disorder of the colon characterised by the passage of blood and pus), which may be connected with type of feeding in infancy and especially the early introduction of solids.

• In one survey, it was found that people with ulcerative colitis were twice as likely as "normal" people never to have been breastfed.
  
  
• Another study showed that people with long-standing ulcerative colitis had high levels of antibodies to cow's milk protein in their blood.

Breastfed babies have less chance of developing necrotising enterecolitis, a bowel infection with high death rate seen almost exclusively in the bottle-fed

Although this is a rare disease, it is virtually never seen in the breastfed child.

Breastfeeding - Fights Diseases

Breast milk contains immunities to diseases and aids in the development of baby's immune system

Formula provides neither of these benefits. According to a study reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, fully bottle-fed infants were hospitalized with infectious diseases 10 times more often and spent 10 times more days in hospital during the first year of life than fully breastfed infants.

Breastfeeding protects against intestinal disorder

In a Manchester study, out of 170 babies under 6 months old admitted to a hospital with gastro-enteritis, only one baby was being breastfed.

Breast milk lowers risk of developing asthma

According to study published in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in July 1995, breastfed babies have a lower risk for developing recurrent wheezing when they are older (age 6 or more).

Breastfeeding protects baby against diarrhoeal infections

Diarrhoea is a major killer of infants and toddlers, and the main cause of diarrhoea is a bottle-feeding. Breastfeeding is the best way to prevent diarrhoea. Studies have shown that babies who are breastfed exclusively have a lower incidence of diarrhoea.

Breastfeeding protects baby against bacterial meningitis.

Breastfeeding protects baby against respiratory infections

in one study of babies treated with respiratory infections in a Newcastle hospital, it was found that only 1 in 14 was being breastfed, compared with 1 in 4 among healthy babies outside the hospital.

Breastfeeding decease chances of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

Preliminary data from the University of North Caroline/Duke University researches indicates breastfed children were only 40% as likely to develop juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

Breastfeeding - Better Development

Breastfed Babies Walk Earlier

Two studies have shown that breastfed babies walk earlier than bottle-fed babies even after allowing for differences in weight between the 2 groups and excluding babies whose mothers went out to work (because they might possibly have been less stimulated to walk).

Better Speech Development

Tongue thrust problems often develop among bottle-fed babies as they try to slow down the flow of milk coming from the artificial nipple. This can lead to speech problem. as well as mouth-breathing, lip-biting, gum disease and a generally unattractive appearance.

Better Social Skills

A study in Hungary found that breastfeeding in the first 3 months of life greatly improves a child;s social maturity (as well as psychomotor, ie physical movement,skills). This is encouraged by human contact during feeding (a nursing mother must cuddle her infant closely many times during the day). At birth, infant see only 12-15 inches, the distance between a nursing baby and its mother's face. This gives child an important early start in human interaction.

Facilitates Proper Dental and Jaw Development

Suckling at the breast is good for baby's tooth and jaw development. Babies at the breast have to use as much as 60 times more energy to get food than do those drinking from a bottle.

As the babies' jaw muscles are strenuously exercised in suckling,their constant pulling encourages the growth of well-formed jaws and straight, healthy teeth.

Among breastfed infant, the longer the duration of nursing, the lower the incidents of malocclusion (faulty mouth and jaw development).

Many specialist report that they see fewer such problems in breastfed babies. In one survey of nearly 500 children with such problems, only 2 had been breastfed.

Breastfeeding - More Brainy

Breastfed Babies Have Higher IQs

• According to a University of Bristol paper published in Early Human Development in 1997, in 8 out of 10 population studies, and 3 studies of low birth weight infants, it has been consistently shown that children who have been breastfed are on average intellectually more able than bottle-fed children. The longer the child has been breastfed, the more pronounced the effect. 
• Another study of nearly 400 children using several tests showed that the highest IQs (of 130 or higher) were obtained by children who had been breastfed for between 4 and 9 months.
• In another study of 771 low-birth weight infants, babies whose mothers chose to provide breast milk had an 8-point advantage in a mental development test over infants of mothers choosing not to do so.
• In Spain, a 1994 study of 229 breastfed and bottle-fed infants from birth to 2 years found lower mental development in the bottle-fed infants.
• In Britain, a 1995 follow-up study of children booked into antenatal clinics found further evidence of the association between breastfeeding and child intelligence - significantly higher mental development was seen in the breastfed children studied. 

Breastfed Babies Have Better Language Development

A New Zealand study found that breastfed children have higher language development (as well as intelligence test) scores at ages 3, 5 and 7 than children who were not breastfed.

Better Educational Achievement

The latest study to support this statement was done in New Zealand in 1998. Here an 18-year study of over 1,000 children found that those who were breastfed as infants had both better intelligence and greater academic achievement that children who were infant-formula fed.

Better Reading Comprehension and Mathematical Ability

The above New Zealand study also found that increasing the duration of breastfeeding results in significant increase in reading comprehension and mathematical ability.

Breastfeeding - Makes your child more INTELLIGENT & HEALTHY

How to make your child more intelligent?

Want an intelligent, healthy child? There's a proven solution that lies beyond expensive books, computer lessons, tuition classes and IQ pills - mother's milk.

Breast milk is superior infant food. It contains at least 100 ingredients not found, and that cannot be replicated, in infant formula. And it has just the right amount of fatty acids, lactose, water, and amino acids for human digestion, brain development, and growth.

Breastfeeding will also give your child immunity from infection, less chance of obesity, less risk of dental decay and many other life-long health benefits.

More than two decades of research have established that breast milk is perfectly suited to nourish infants and protect them from illness. This is because about 80% of the cells in breast milk are cell that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Breastfed babies thus have fewer illnesses. You save money (especially in today economy situation) not just on infant formula, but also on doctors' bills!

You may help save your child's life too. Human milk straight from the breast is always sterile, never contaminated by polluted water or dirty bottles, which can lead to potentially fatal diarrhoea in the infant.

That's not all.No babies are allergic to their mother's milk. In the contrast, some babies are allergic to cow's milk, and have to be prescribed 3 or 4 different formulas before an agreeable one is found. Allergic reactions to artificial food can be so severe that they threaten a baby's life.

Also, cow's milk contains a different type of protein which human infants can have difficulty digesting. (About half the protein in cow's milk passes through the baby's body as a waste product.) Human milk is easier to digest, so the baby energy is conserved for better growth - of his brain and body.... To be continued.

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