Handy Tips to Extend Breastfeeding For The Betterment of Your Kids

Breast milk is the ideal food for babies because it is a complete and proportionate natural food for neonatal babies comprising of perfect proportion of fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The mother who does breast feeding enjoys better natural protection from developing cancer, and the baby on the other hand is benefited with better scale of natural immunities.

This is the reason breast feeding should be extended as much as possible for two- way benefits of the mothers as well as of the babies. Some of the easy tips for extending lactating period are mentioned here.

In post-delivery period, the mother might take a certain time to recover from her labor exhaustion; babies should be introduced to mother breast immediately after that initial rest period.

The thick yellow milk comes out at the first instance of milk secretion, named as colostrums, promotes natural immunity of the child for rest of his/her life. The process of breastfeeding starts from here and builds onward a bond between the child and the mother.

In the next stage, more the baby demands breast milk depending on his hunger, the supply of breast milk would increase in its quantity. More the baby will demand for foods, accordingly mammalian gland would produce milk. For first six months, the baby should be fed on entirely mother’s milk and on demand the lactation period extends.

For working mothers they can store their breast milk while they are on work and need to store it in a refrigerator and bring it home by cooler pot. The breast milk can be taken out by a good breast pump from time to time in the duty hours.

Being back at home the mother should feed her babies then and then and thus the normalcy in breastfeeding is restored and in this way breastfeeding process and milk quality and quantity can be extended.

Extending breastfeeding can be done on regular breast feeding of the baby and it should be continued up to one year of the age of the baby. By this time the baby should be introduced with normal food diet and breast feeding should be continued as additional diet and on regular feed, the process would be continued and extended.

Proper love, care, affection, and an utmost intention to build up a bond between the baby and the mother can initiate a natural extension of this natural service to the baby from the mother for the life long health benefit of the baby.