уторак, 3. мај 2011.

Babies milk


According to the recommendations of the Committee for the nutrition of the European Union, from January, manufacturers changed the standards in the production of adapted milk. Why is this important? Any mother who, for whatever reason can’t breastfeed her child immediately after discharge from the hospital wants to know that milk is best for her newborn baby, since almost all children have problems with their tummy in the first few months.
In the new milk formulas are represented in the optimal amounts of lactose (milk sugar), and the latest standards for white sugar (sucrose) in milk should not be present even in trace amounts!
In addition, under the new criteria of quality, milk formula is not merely an imitation of her mother's. Milk formula should achieve the same biological effect, that his taking the baby to be healthy, to grow properly and have good immunity. The milk for babies is therefore added to the LC-PUFA, and fatty acids that are important for vision and brain development. It was found, namely, that the child is much better mentally develops when they clearly perceive objects and characters before they reach six months.

Healing and nutritional
Baby milk who deviates from the prescribed standards must not be used. Caramel sugar, disputed is not harmful, differs from the established rules and has a lower nutritional value. It is most important for babies, parents and the whole society that milk comes directly from the manufacture, as confirmed by a customs declaration indicating the composition, place of manufacture and date. This document is required and so that we ensure that our babies use milk that is distributed in the European Union.
Of particular importance to the maternity wards, are different brands of milk, because although they are similar, they are not of the same composition, and have different tastes, even when they are whit completely identical nutritional value.
If the mother accepts the advice from the doctors as a medical rather than a recommendation, the baby can get milk that does not suit her taste. Instead it develops gradually and slowly takes food that he likes the child will ingest milk in order to satisfy hunger, lately it will "jam" food in itself, and more likely to be obese in adulthood. This is just one reason why it is important that our children have different milk formulas available.
Some babies suffer when they have stomach cramps and gas. These problems arise because the capacity of the digestion of milk sugar by small children is limited. Then it should help milk formula with reduced lactose.
It is advised to the parents to study of baby milk for healthy and sick children and to choose some reputable global manufacturers that have already been present for decades in market. Necessarily see the declaration of origin and try the milk before use, because it is important that babies get milk of a pleasant taste.
Why not cow's milk
Cow's milk has too much protein and minerals, and can overwhelm a baby's little organism. It has low fatty acids that are needed for normal growth and development of infants, and very little vitamin C and E, iodine and iron which are poorly absorbed, so the children fed whit cow's milk are anemic.

уторак, 5. април 2011.

The Advantages of Formula Feeding

If there were no benefits of bottle feeding, no one who is capable of breastfeed would not decides for it. Although there are some real advantages, they can't overshadow all the positive thinks that breastfeeding provides.

The baby eat less frequently

Formula milk is harder to digest than breast milk and the longer it stays in your baby's stomach, creating a feeling of fullness that can last several hours. In this way, in the very early stages the gap between meals increases to three or four hours. Because breast milk quickly and easily digested, many babies eat so often that they are constantly on the mother's breast. This frequent feedings are not useless, since they stimulate milk production, but they can be exhausting.

Easy control of amount of eaten milk

What is a mystery to many mothers in the first days and weeks after childbirth, is whether their child is getting enough food by breastfeeding, whether eating enough and what is the amount that they are sufficient to saturate. When the baby feeds on the bottle, these kind of questions are not a mystery. You will always know amount of eaten milk and how much your baby eats.

More freedom

This way of feeding not hampers you in no way. You're free as you want to be. Long nights out (if you have willing grandparents to keep your baby), dinners, travel, shopping, everything is much more relaxed because you do not have to run home to be there when your baby asks to eat. Much more and your husband can participate in feeding.

It is less demanding

A mother who is exhausted from hard labor does not have to further strain in the night awakening and breastfeeding, a husband can always replace her or someone who finds herself there to help. Also, your body, will less overwork if you do not have to produce milk.

Less diet restrictions

Mother who fed the baby whit formula can stop eating for "two". Does not have to eat extra protein and calcium, and vitamins that she drank during pregnancy, but a breastfeeding mother has to take care of all this. Mothers who feed their babies on the bottle can even smoke and drink at a party somewhere a little more, can drink a painkiller and eat spicy food, so you do not have to care about effects on the baby. After the first six weeks of childbirth, she may be on a diet, but wisely, and to remove all the weight that bothered her. This is something that a breastfeeding mother can't do until the baby rejects the breast.

Feeding in public is less uncomfortable

Bottle feeding can be carried out in public without shame and embarrassment. A woman who feeds her baby on the bottle is not as interesting to other as a woman who is breastfeeding.

If your baby does not want to take the bottle you can try the following tips:

Give someone else to offer her a bottle;

Offer her a bottle with milk when your baby is too hungry;

Feeding your baby in a different place where you are constantly giving her to eat (if it is a rejection of breastfeeding);

Offer her formula from a dark bottle so that baby can't see what you give her;

Preheat a pacifier before you offer her to baby;

Try different brands of the pacifier;

If your baby is eating solid food, when you make purées add some formula.

For more on Formula Feeding visit baby portal Formula Feeding and find all informations you need.