Breast Feeding

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Nature, through breastfeeding, has provided women with the perfect way to nurture their babies. Breastfeeding naturally binds mother and baby together, making them inseparable for the first months; this can limit mum’s freedom as a woman but give her the first wonderful opportunity about motherhood .

In some occasions mums cannot or want not breastfeed;

If a woman have been infected with HIV, because the virus can be passed to child through the milk. (Women infected with cytomegalovirus and hepatitis C generally can breastfeed.)

If a woman have a serious illness (heart disease, for example, or severe anemia ) should not nurse, if she have a serious infection like active, untreated tuberculosis.

A woman shouldn’t nurse if has been receiving radiation in any form or are taking medications that pass into the breast milk and can hurt the baby, like antithyroid medication, chemotherapeutic agents, and some mood-altering drugs.

Mum shouldn’t nurse if have a drug or alcohol addiction.

Smokers can breastfeed, but they shouldn’t light up at least 95 minutes before every feeding, to be sure no nicotine or other chemicals are in the milk.

Another reason because some mums avoid breastfeeding is because they feels pushed from family, friends and media, but they feel breastfeeding too hard, hurting or maybe the breastfeeding idea is frightening or repulsive.

All opinions need to be respected.

There is not magic formula for a successful breastfeeding relationship but you can follow some suggestions.

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