It can be alarming to see that our milk has such a strange color, but there is usually no reason to be scared. What we should know is that the color of breast milk is not always white (or yellowish as we see it) but sometimes it can take on other shades, without this being anything bad.
Mastitis is a disease that quite often affects nursing mothers; some studies estimate that up to a third of breastfeeding mothers experience mastitis at some point.
The ideal feeding of the newborn and up to six months of life is exclusive breastfeeding. However, achieving this is often not easy. There is a lot of research being done on what actions can help you be successful in achieving a happy breastfeeding.
As we have explained on other occasions, the production of breast milk depends directly on the suction that the baby performs on the woman's breast: when suckling, the baby stimulates a couple of hormones and these in turn activate the mammary glands.
The main international health organizations recommend maintaining breastfeeding at least until the baby is six months old, thanks to the various benefits it provides for mothers and children. However, nursing permits in many countries do not cover this time.
Breastfeeding is the ideal food for babies up to six months of age, and later accompanied by other foods up to two years or more. However, sometimes there are difficulties that prevent the baby from breastfeeding exclusively, suckling directly from the breast and/or stopping breast milk: premature or very low birth weight babies, maternal admission, abnormalities of the baby that require surgery or income, need for separation for other reasons or due to maternal desire to wean.
A few weeks ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its recommendations on breastfeeding, stating that it should last until at least the first two years of life. And the reasons for doing so are becoming clearer.
Monkeypox continues to spread throughout the world, and although it has not yet been declared a pandemic, the numbers are beginning to be worrying: in Spain we have exceeded 3,000 cases and we are the country that has registered the most infections in the world (which adds 15,379 cases as of July 20 according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention CDC).
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