Every baby born long before his time needs breast milk appropriate to his gestational age. For this reason, in the Neonatology Personalized Nutrition Unit of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, premature babies who need it receive donated breast milk that corresponds to their gestation period and postnatal age.
The World Health Organization (WHO) advises feeding babies with breast milk for the first six months of life and prolonging breastfeeding as a complement to solid food for up to two years or more.
Between August 1 and 7, World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated, and from Babies and More we will dedicate a daily space to inform, defend and protect breastfeeding. And it is that, although we all know the multiple benefits that it has for mother and baby, there is still a lot of work to do and many myths to demolish.
Today begins the World Breastfeeding Week, established by the WHO and UNICEF to "protect, promote and support breastfeeding, due to the innumerable benefits it brings to the health of the mother and the baby."
We sleep every day and we like more or less frolicking between the sheets, our body asks us for hours of rest every day. These are the most positive effects of a good night's sleep.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
