Lactation

Ian Uriel was born at 28 weeks gestation with a weight of only kilo and eighty grams, after his mother was detected pre-eclampsia and had to perform a cesarean section, four days after admission. The newborn was hospitalized for 84 days in the neonatal ICU of the Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics' Dr. Luis Castelazo Ayala '. Thanks to the Breast Milk Bank of the Mexican Institute of Social Health (IMSS) he was able to recover earlier, being fed with the best existing medicine.

Breast milk is the best food we can give our baby. And famous moms have become icons in the fight for breastfeeding, also in public. One of them is Natalia Sánchez, a mother of two children, who has shared and shares her experiences in motherhood on her Instagram account, as a way to normalize it and help other mothers who are traveling the same path.

Breastfeeding is the ideal food, exclusively, for the baby during the first six months of life, but sometimes it is not easy and problems often arise.

This week, from August 1 to 7, we are celebrating World Breastfeeding Week, and given the pandemic context in which we find ourselves, the recommendation of pediatricians to maintain breastfeeding in Covid-positive mothers is important. 19.

Every year from August 1 to 7, World Breastfeeding Week (SMLM) is celebrated, 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, and coordinated by the World Breastfeeding Alliance (WABA).

Breastfed babies can spend a lot of time at the breast. They can finish a feeding and after five minutes, ask to be breastfed again at any time of the day, being especially exhausting at night.

It is not the first time that we echo an incident of discrimination in a swimming pool to a mother breastfeeding her baby. It is unfortunate that in the times we live in, something as natural as feeding a baby is still seen as something bad or dirty. In this case, it happened to a mother from Montcada i Reixac (Barcelona) who was "invited" to breastfeed her six-month-old baby in the changing room.

We know that breastfeeding is the best food we can give a baby during its first months of life, due to the large number of benefits that breast milk provides for its health, and of which more are being discovered every day.