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Why should you breastfeed your baby? Here are just a few of the many reasons:
- Breastmilk is designed to be the perfect food for your baby.
- Breastfeeding boosts your baby’s immune system, preventing and minimizing many sicknesses.
- It helps prevent allergies, especially if you breastfeed exclusively for at least 6 months.
- Breastfeeding also helps prevent ear infections, childhood obesity, diarrhea and constipation, promotes proper jaw, teeth and speech development, and reduces the risk of SIDS.
- Breastmilk is sterile and always ready the moment your baby needs it, which makes it perfectly convenient!
- Breastfeeding is calming, comforting and promotes bonding between you and your baby.
- Studies have shown that the longer a mother breastfeeds throughout her life, the lower her chances are of getting breast cancer.
Getting off to a good start with breastfeeding can be a challenge, but it is well worth it. Breastfeed your baby as soon as possible after the birth, preferably within one hour. Hold your baby skin-to-skin; this will encourage him to latch on, among many other benefits. Make sure your baby is latched on well from the start – don’t be afraid to ask for help from your nurse, doula, midwife, lactation consultant, or experienced friend.
You should not be separated from your baby, “rooming in” is better for both mother and baby. Do not give artificial nipples to your baby or allow anyone else to do so. Nurse your baby as often as he is hungry, for as long as he wants to suck. Supplements are rarely needed, and most of the time when supplementation is recommended, there are alternative feeding methods that can be used to maintain exclusive breastfeeding. Contact a good lactation consultant if you have questions about what you are being told.
Here are some basics for good positioning and latch-on. Make sure you are comfortable, with lots of pillows for support, Baby should be on his side, tummy to tummy with you. Support your breast with the hand closest to the baby’s head, and the baby’s head and neck with your other hand. Start with baby’s chin touching the breast first, then let the baby touch the nipple and wait for his mouth to open wide. Bring the baby to the breast, not the breast to the baby, and aim the nipple for the roof of baby’s mouth, you want his mouth to be open wide and covering as much of the areola as possible. You can tell that the baby is drinking when you hear him swallowing and he is sucking deeply and pausing with each suck.
This information is intended to be merely supportive in nature. Please contact your physician or a lactation consultant for diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
The author Brenda Minica CD (CBI) is a birth and labor doula in San Antonio Texas. She has 6 children of her own and has experience breastfeeding for a combined total of nearly twelve years so far.
December 2, 2009
RC Helicopters Are Not Always Expensive
Despite how the cost of things makes it easier to buy what you really want one of the dilemmas today is that there is so much choice, even these days when the credit crunch is making everyone more cost conscious.
You see when you have 10 items to choose from, all as good as each other, it’s at least 10 times as hard to pick one. And when you have to look carefully at the price tag, that’s an added layer of complication.
For anyone who wants a remote control helicopter there’s a very wide choice these days. Actually, prices start under 20 pounds if you just want something that’s a bit of fun to play with and easy to fly.
Probably the best choice and value right now is provided by the Picoz range. They seem to know how to make fun, cheap radio control helicopters and their range is very wide and constantly growing.
More important than just a good range and a low price is that they’re just plain fun! Give one to a boy – or a man – and watch how they pretend to be ace pilots! You won’t see them for hours because they’ll be so absorbed in ‘flying’ the helicopter.
Since they’re very lightweight they don’t have the heavy crash landings that you gt with the ‘real’ radio control helicopters. That means they don’t normally sustain damage the way the big toys do. In other words once you’ve bought one, it should last you a long, long time. Important in today’s economic climate.
So if you’re looking for a fun gift for someone who’s hard to please, don’t overlook the humble radio control helicopter
You’ll find that the value for money, ease of use and sheer fun is hard to beat. Couple that with a wow factor when you see one actually flying – and knowning that you control it – and you can see why so many people buy this miniature marvels of modern toy-making.
November 2, 2009
Searching for Mens Wedding Bands
When purchasing Mens Wedding Bands a person would only want the highest quality and nothing less. A person may not know what different options they have when purchasing Mens Wedding Bands,the first thoughts that may come into mind would naturally be the traditional custom metals. The best way to go in purchasing Mens Wedding Bands would be what exactly suits your needs the most. The simple thought of purchasing a men’s wedding ring can turn into a great struggle. When looking for the best metals for mens wedding rings one can often turn to the tungsten carbide rings, titanium rings and stainless steel rings. These particular men’s wedding rings are slowly but surly rising in popularity and have proven to be the best metals for men’s wedding rings.
When choosing a specific ring one must be knowledgeable about all the qualities it has to offer. For instance the tungsten carbide ring is scratch resident. These particular mens wedding rings can permanently be polished, and are referred to as the permanently polished ring. If a person were to be interested in the tungsten ring with out the carbide composition a stainless steel ring would be ideal mens wedding rings. The titanium mens wedding rings are very lightweight, but is a very strong ring as well. It offers several amounts of designs that allows for diversity. A number of the other steel rings do not have this option. If one does not want to worry about their ring oxidizing, stainless steel or titanium would be the best choice! Each of these individual metals have different characteristics that make them unique in several ways.
Unlike other things in life, with mens wedding rings one does not have to sacrifice any of the desires to get precisely what one has in mind. Every man is unique in his own way, and the wedding ring should reflect that. This special day in a man’s life is very important and the ring should be a remembrance of that special day. A marriage is a great gift in life and every aspect of it should be perfect. After spending countless hours deciding on the type of music that will be played, the flavor of the cake, the color of the flowers, who should sit where, and numerous other aspects that go into planning a wedding it is nice to know that there are many options when choosing a mens wedding ring so everyone is pleased at the end of the day.