It is said that newborns only eat and sleep and, although in some cases it may be (almost) true, the truth is that it is often difficult to get babies to fall asleep.
By their own physiology, babies are at higher risk of dehydration in very hot weather. The proportion of body water in the baby is around 70% (while in an adult it is 55%), and most of it inside the cells, making its balance much weaker, increasing the risk from excessive fluid loss.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has published a guide with new recommendations for breastfeeding, which come to update its recommendations made a decade ago.
According to the Breastfeeding Committee of the Spanish Association of Paediatrics, six months after the birth of the baby, only 28.5% of Spanish mothers maintain exclusive breastfeeding. The main reason for abandoning breastfeeding is the difficulty of reconciling work and family when mothers have to return to work.
Weaning is the process by which breastfeeding is stopped. We know that breast milk is the ideal food for newborns and infants up to six months of life; subsequently, it is recommended to keep it together with other foods for up to two years or more whenever the mother and the baby want it.
Carrying our baby from birth and continuing to do so until the carrier and child decide, is one of the most beautiful experiences of motherhood. In addition, ergonomic and respectful carrying has innumerable benefits for the baby, since it helps calm down by being in direct skin-to-skin contact, relieves symptoms of reflux and colic, or even prevents plagiocephaly and hip dysplasia.
Carrying our baby from birth and continuing to do so until the carrier and child decide, is one of the most beautiful experiences of motherhood. In addition, ergonomic and respectful carrying has innumerable benefits for the baby, since it helps calm down by being in direct skin-to-skin contact, relieves symptoms of reflux and colic, or even prevents plagiocephaly and hip dysplasia.
Breast milk is the ideal food for newborns and infants up to six months of life, and continues to be so afterwards, accompanied by the complementary feeding recommended according to the baby's age.
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