10 Breastfeeding Myths vs. Facts

the new mother, again confused. A lot of myths circulating about breast milk and breastfeeding. She says breastfeeding can lead to sagging breasts. Then hear-hear, too, the breast milk of his small means little.

Plus a friend told me, the milk from her right breast while foods containing milk drink containing the left breast. So if left alone with breast feeding your child will not be food. true is not it?

Well, that Moms do not get 'lost' and get accurate information, see deh scientific facts from the myths that expressed 10 dr. Dian N. Basuki, MD, MSC, IBCLC following!

1.Breastfeeding will lead to sagging breasts

Fact: Wrong! Breasts enlarged as sacs while breastfeeding, the breast muscles to contract to remove milk from the breast so that the empty bags and return to its original size. When to wean a regular basis, then the maximum volume in the breast milk will slowly decrease and your breasts will adjust to the ideal size.

2.Small breasts, do not produce a lot more milk

Fact: Breast size is distinguished by the amount of fat in the breast. The more fat, the greater size. However, the ability to produce breast milk remains the same. The volume of milk in the breast is determined by the amount smoked. The more effectively the baby sucks, the more milk is produced faster and faster filled breast optimal.

3.Colostrum / milk is sour milk first

Fact: Not true! Colostrum is a fluid with a very high nutritional value, and contains immune substances are very useful to protect infants from various harmful germs on the first days of birth.

4.Caesarean birth mother can not breastfeed her first

Fact: That shortly after birth, colostrum can and should be given because of its nutrient content is reduced each day until finally the transition to mature milk. The change from colostrum to transitional milk and mature milk begins with the release of the placenta / umbilical cord from the mother's womb. So cesarean birth mother can still breastfeed first.

5.breast milk can change the flavor and color

Fact: True, milk flavor can vary according to the food Mother, while the colors tend to be small changes. Changes in taste breast milk is beneficial in terms of introducing a variety of family meals on the baby. So when the baby began to recognize the solid food, he will not be familiar to those flavors.

6.Right breast containing foods and beverages that left

Fact: Not the left and right breast with different content like food and drinks, but "when" milk out of the breast. The first milk out of the breast will be more clear as coconut water because of the high content of protein and water. While breast milk that came out recently from breast  high fat and carbohydrate.

7.Spicy foods containing coconut milk and consumed by the mother can make baby's diarrhea

Fact: There is no research to prove the correlation spicy food / milk to the infant's stools. Basically, before the age of 1 year, babies are still developing gut to digest food prepared family, so the form of the stool is still changing. Mothers who are accustomed to eating spicy foods and milk usually will not drastically change his diet during pregnancy and lactation, so that there is no relationship between diarrhea and these foods.

8.Breastfeeding mothers should not drink because it makes the baby a cold ice

Fact: Colds can be caused by influenza virus or allergy to certain substances. There is no research to prove the correlation mothers with babies drinking ice cold.

9.Breastfeeding mothers who are sick safe when taking the drug

Fact: There are several factors that determine the presence of drugs in breast milk, such as molecular size, the ability to bind to fats or proteins, drug half-life - the time it takes so that half of the drug removed from the body - and so on. "Time" is a drug that can be found in breast milk had to go through the process of digestion in the gut could be a baby for the baby's circulation. Thus, the majority of drug-free breastfeeding mothers may be consumed.

10.If the baby is a cold / cough during breastfeeding it was his mother who take medication

Fact: Referring to the information above, there are various factors that determine whether a drug is consumed by pregnant can still be found in breast milk. In principle, if a child is sick, then the drug should be administ