The protective properties of breast milk help breastfed babies get sick less often and recover faster than formula-fed babies. However, on many occasions doubts arise about whether it is safe to breastfeed when the baby or mother is sick or unwell.
The World Health Organization recommends that mothers breastfeed their newborn children even if they have the coronavirus. A new study carried out by researchers from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (China), comes to support these guidelines, since it has proven that breast milk could help prevent or treat Covid-19.
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.
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.
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.
It is normal that newborns do not have the rhythm of sleep adapted to the day and night. In fact, they feed on demand, so, especially in the first weeks and months, they do not follow our schedule and wake up several times during the night to eat.
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