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Diet Consideration While Breastfeeding

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  Breastfeeding provides a great start for your baby and at the same time gives many health benefits to the mother as well. This milk is best for your baby’s growth and development plus it also has a variety of protective compounds that saves baby from infections, illnesses and builds a strong immune system that helps later in life. not surprisingly, it takes a lot of calories, energy and vital nutrients from your body to produce breast milk. You need an additional 400-500 calories a day to stay healthy and active but it doesn’t mean having junk food like burgers, fries or sweets. One of the best ways to increase these calories is to introduce two to three healthy snacks along with three main meals of the day. You can have fruits, nuts and seeds and even lactating cookies which are made from oats and other milk boosting ingredients that are safe and nutrient dense. A mother must also focus on their daily meals which must consist of protein rich foods such as lean meat, eggs, b...
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How to Wean Your Baby?

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Breast milk is the best food we give to our baby in the beginning specially colostrum which is loaded with so many immunity boosters. This milk is a gift of nature and one can never deny its benefits at all. However, many mothers couldn’t feed because of low milk supply and switched to formula milk and bottle feeding. Nursing women must try some known galactogogues and other breastfeeding cookies which are a perfect combination of herbs and foods that help increase milk supply. It is recommended to feed your milk to your baby exclusively for up to six months and then later introduce some semi-solid foods which a baby can easily digest, with continuing breast milk at least at the age of one. However, you could feed your baby till two years of age. Switching from one type of food to another is actually known as weaning, it could be switching to some foods, leaving breast milk and coming to bottle or cup feed. The usual response of the babies is very different from one to another, a...
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Using Art to Raise Awareness of Breastfeeding for Children with Medical Complexities

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Breastfeeding is the best gift a mother can give to its infant. The milk is often referred to as liquid gold because of its amazing nutritional value, probiotic and other supplements no formula milk or animal milk can substitute. According to WHO, every mother should exclusively nurse their child for the first 6 month and then for at least 2 years on the whole. But unfortunately this is not what transpires according to the data collected. In fact, over 70-80% of mothers starting with breastfeeding at the time of birth end up to be merely 25-30% till the 6 month mark and further down till the 2 year mark. This can be various reasons like not enough milk supply which can be boosted with best lactation cookies . This case is for the normal child but what if the child is born with some medical complexity? Well, then things get even more disappointing which is alarming to say the least. There isn’t enough research or data but the number is quite low for sure. We all need to collectively...
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