Precisely because the breast is the holiday with Hana is no such thing. If I could give kunstvoeding would have been really difficult. I would probably have taken all food from home because the baby food in Korea is still different. Moreover, I have to buy bottled water because the tap water tastes like chlorine in Korea. Where did I warm the bottle to make? What a hassle.

Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul
In Korea we meet not only family but also many friends and acquaintances of my husband. Usually in a restaurant or a coffee. Korean women do not breast-feed in public. It is not that it is not accepted, but the women themselves are quite prudish. In the summer you see, for example, almost no women in bikini or swimsuit. We find them exposed. They just go in shorts and T-shirt in the water. I’m not ashamed of, so I educated in Korea simply everywhere. I’m surprised but especially look mollified. Furthermore they will adopt thinking: Oh, that woman is foreign and there will be feeding in public is normal. ]]> http://www.awakaspolimas.com/secretly-feeding-station-in-seoul.htm/feed 0 http://www.awakaspolimas.com/a-flight-of-more-than-ten-hours-is-a-breeze-if-you-are-breast-feeding.htm http://www.awakaspolimas.com/a-flight-of-more-than-ten-hours-is-a-breeze-if-you-are-breast-feeding.htm#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:57:37 +0000 Bollo Wang http://www.awakaspolimas.com/a-flight-of-more-than-ten-hours-is-a-breeze-if-you-are-breast-feeding.htm

Because my husband works at a Korean airline, cheap airline tickets but we have stand-by. We are lucky. Although overbooked, there still appears to place the direct flight from Schiphol on Friday, December 18. It succeeds the stewardess to give us still a place in the ‘infant row “a cradle which can be hung. During the ascent I Hana chest so they have a dream takes to the air. She notes nothing at all. If we are in the air, the cradle is hung and we set it Hana. Sleep does not play well. She would often drink, probably because the dry air. Luckily I’m near a site where tap water tap for myself. At eleven hours at night, I Hana a long diet, then she falls asleep. Basically the same as at home. She sleeps great in her crib. The ‘morning’ (half past three night Dutch time), the lights in the plane again and breakfast is served. Hana wakes but waits patiently for her breakfast until mama finished eating. During the descent of the plane, my husband and I, we’re both cold, very last of our ears. Hana has not bothered. I feed her again during landing. A flight of more than ten hours is a breeze if you are breast-feeding.

1. Breastfeeding early, the sooner the better. Most babies are ready to breastfeed during the first hour after birth, when the instinct to suck is very strong. Breastfeeding facilitates correct early chest.
2. Chest often offers day and night. Set sail on the idea that you will spend much time nursing your baby during these first weeks. A newborn breast usually between 8 and 12 times in 24 hours. Do not watch the clock and hit the chest every time you look or cry, without waiting for “your turn”. So you establish a good milk supply.
3. Make sure the baby is sucking effectively and in the correct posture.
4. Let the baby suck the first chest all you want, until you drop. Then offer him the other. Sometimes I want, sometimes not. So baby take the milk produced at the end of the shot, rich in fat and calories, and feel satisfied.
5. The more the baby’s drinking, the more milk the mother produces. It is important to respect the natural balance and let the baby set the guidelines, nursing on demand. There is no need to feel the full breast, the milk is produced mainly during the taking thanks to the baby’s sucking.
6. Avoid bottles “Help” and dextrose. The whey formula and fill the baby and undermine their interest in nursing, then the baby is sucking less and less milk the mother produces.
7. Avoid pacifiers, at least during the first weeks, until breastfeeding is well established. A newborn has to learn well how to suck the breast and artificial teats and a bottle or pacifier can impede this learning.
8. Remember also that breast-feeding for reasons other than hunger, such as by suction or need comfort. Offer the breast is the quickest way to soothe your baby.
9. Take care. You need to find time to rest and focus your attention more on the baby than the other areas. Request assistance from yours.
10. Get support. Your local clinic has the information and support that every nursing mother needs.

Breast milk

Features
Breast milk is the ideal food for infants because it contains the amounts and types of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals suitable for development, some of which are specific to the human species, such as taurine, so that are properly digested and assimilated by the digestive system, immature newborn.

60% of the milk proteins are soluble and easily digested. Their fat is more digestible because it contains lipases, enzymes that the baby still can not produce. Minerals such as calcium, iron, zinc and fluoride are well absorbed by children when they are purchased from breast milk.

It is called natural food, because it is the nature offers to the child, his mother’s milk.

The woman’s milk is suited to the physiology of the infant. From a nutritional standpoint and digestive systems is changing in composition and is consistent with the physiological characteristics of the baby, even varies in the same blow job, which at first is richer in carbohydrates (sugars) and end-fat what regulates the digestive function of the child.

The low sodium concentration is a favorable factor in the future to prevent the occurrence of hypertension and kidney disease. It consists of 80% water, ensuring the application of fluid required during the period of breastfeeding, even in hot dry climates.

One of its most precious qualities is the large number of immune components, both humoral and cellular make up their protective function against viruses, bacteria and parasites: immune value.

Composition at different stages
The milk the mother gives her son is a sugar solution, salt and protein that contains an emulsion of fat globules. Its composition varies from the period before birth through different stages after birth.

During the last trimester of pregnancy, mammary glands secrete a highly saline fluid rich in proteins, and after the birth are known three different stages.

• In the first three days after birth, breast secretes up to 100 ml of a yellow liquid (which is high in vitamin A and other fat-soluble vitamins), viscous, very abundant in proteins of high biological value, called colostrum . Colostrum is nearly three times more protein than milk Ultimately, many of which come from living cells and antibodies from the mother. These high concentrations of antibodies or immunoglobulins such as type A and lactoferrin, with special cells such as lymphocytes and macrophages, protects the infant from the aggressions to which they must deal until you are able to develop their own defenses. Colostrum is relatively low in fat and lactose, which is the milk sugar, for in these first days the baby does not need much energy. Moreover, at this early stage, milk contains higher amount of salts that serve as a laxative to facilitate cleaning of the intestines of the newborn. The quantity produced in this first phase, although less than in the other, is the necessary and sufficient for the baby, so this phenomenon should not be misinterpreted or lead to an unjustified weaning.
• Between the fourth and tenth day after delivery occurs transitional milk in amounts that can reach half a liter a day. This milk has less protein (immunoglobulin) and fat soluble vitamins, so it takes a more whitish increase water-soluble vitamins, fat and lactose, and the baby needs for new forces.
• By month old milk is short, white and sweet taste, because it is rich in lactose. This mature milk has the proper ratio of water and all the nutrients it needs to feed the infant without adding anything else. Although the amount varies from one woman to another, without affecting the normal growth of their children, can reach 800 ml in the day, almost a quart.

The amount of milk a mother produces healthy, properly stimulated, is sufficient for the baby, this test assesses the child’s weight gain, especially their growth, periodic inspections to be performed by the doctor and nurse.

The milk quality is stable, as the body of the mother is assured even at the expense of its own reserves, if necessary. Currently in the food-deficient populations, infants are protected from malnutrition, at least during the first months of life, at the expense of mothers.