Benefits of breast milk (breast milk) for infants are well known. In addition to a healthy baby, give milk to the baby also means providing multiple benefits to the mother.
Any woman or mother is entitled to have a better quality of life, and in fact this right can be obtained if the mother gives milk to her baby properly and also exclusively for six months.
"Approximately 80 percent of mother's milk is in the mind of the mother, so one factor is how successful breastfeeding from the mother's mindset itself," said Dr. Utami Roesli, SpA, IBCLC, Breastfeeding seminar FABM in Improving Quality of Life of Women, The Graha Niaga, Jakarta, Tuesday (03/23/2010).
Dr. Utami said further there are various benefits that can be obtained if the mother is breastfeeding the baby, namely:
1. Reducing the risk of breast cancer in the mother. Based on research conducted in 2005, the risk of breast cancer in women before menopause on average 12 percent lower in mothers who breastfeed their children. It is estimated that substance innate immune system (defensins, cathelicidins and TLRs) found in breast milk can provide protection against breast tissue from the threat of cancer.
2. Reducing the risk of ovarian cancer (ovarian) and uterine cancer (endometrial cancer).
3. Reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In a 2006 study involving 150 000 mothers found that each year of breast-feeding mothers can reduce the risk of developing diabetes by 15 percent.
4. Reducing the risk of being overweight. With breastfeeding, the existing body fat will be converted to breast milk so it does not cause the rapid return of overweight and body shape as before. Found a reduction of 0.44 kg body weight for each month of breastfeeding.
5. Could be the most effective way of planning. Nursing can be a way to prevent pregnancy if done correctly. There are several conditions that have not experienced menstruation, breast feeding should not be interrupted him at all and also had six months or are still exclusively breastfed.
6. Reduce stress and anxiety. Oxytocin hormones will be out when mothers breastfeed their babies, these hormones serve to reduce stress. So that nursing mothers will have a positive feeling and can do more positive things the other.
7. Reducing the risk of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. Mothers who breastfeed have a good mineral density compared with mothers who did not breastfeed, though not yet known exactly how to do.
"Breastfeeding is an equilibrium process that involves three people namely the mother, baby and father. Therefore the father's role is very significant in terms of the success of exclusive breastfeeding for six months or up to two years," said Dr. Utami.
Shape of the support can be given by the husband may be psychological effects such as massaging the shoulders or the mother's body and thus feel more relaxed. Because if the mother feels that stress will make breastfeeding a little out.
In addition, employers said Dewi Motik to support the success of breast-feeding should be from a young age children are introduced to all things related to breastfeeding.
"My mother used to always take their child to help him feed, such as helped pick cotton, and others. Landscape regular visits by children will make kids think that one day I want to be like mothers who breastfeed their children," says Dr Dewi Motik Pramono, MSI.
Goddess add though still small does not mean the kids have no idea, but what she saw children going to imprint on the memory so that it leads children to breastfeed her baby in the future.
"By giving milk will make the children become healthy, well behaved and the parents will have a strong emotional bond with the child," said chairman Indonesian Women's Congress.
Any woman or mother is entitled to have a better quality of life, and in fact this right can be obtained if the mother gives milk to her baby properly and also exclusively for six months.
"Approximately 80 percent of mother's milk is in the mind of the mother, so one factor is how successful breastfeeding from the mother's mindset itself," said Dr. Utami Roesli, SpA, IBCLC, Breastfeeding seminar FABM in Improving Quality of Life of Women, The Graha Niaga, Jakarta, Tuesday (03/23/2010).
Dr. Utami said further there are various benefits that can be obtained if the mother is breastfeeding the baby, namely:
1. Reducing the risk of breast cancer in the mother. Based on research conducted in 2005, the risk of breast cancer in women before menopause on average 12 percent lower in mothers who breastfeed their children. It is estimated that substance innate immune system (defensins, cathelicidins and TLRs) found in breast milk can provide protection against breast tissue from the threat of cancer.
2. Reducing the risk of ovarian cancer (ovarian) and uterine cancer (endometrial cancer).
3. Reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. In a 2006 study involving 150 000 mothers found that each year of breast-feeding mothers can reduce the risk of developing diabetes by 15 percent.
4. Reducing the risk of being overweight. With breastfeeding, the existing body fat will be converted to breast milk so it does not cause the rapid return of overweight and body shape as before. Found a reduction of 0.44 kg body weight for each month of breastfeeding.
5. Could be the most effective way of planning. Nursing can be a way to prevent pregnancy if done correctly. There are several conditions that have not experienced menstruation, breast feeding should not be interrupted him at all and also had six months or are still exclusively breastfed.
6. Reduce stress and anxiety. Oxytocin hormones will be out when mothers breastfeed their babies, these hormones serve to reduce stress. So that nursing mothers will have a positive feeling and can do more positive things the other.
7. Reducing the risk of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. Mothers who breastfeed have a good mineral density compared with mothers who did not breastfeed, though not yet known exactly how to do.
"Breastfeeding is an equilibrium process that involves three people namely the mother, baby and father. Therefore the father's role is very significant in terms of the success of exclusive breastfeeding for six months or up to two years," said Dr. Utami.
Shape of the support can be given by the husband may be psychological effects such as massaging the shoulders or the mother's body and thus feel more relaxed. Because if the mother feels that stress will make breastfeeding a little out.
In addition, employers said Dewi Motik to support the success of breast-feeding should be from a young age children are introduced to all things related to breastfeeding.
"My mother used to always take their child to help him feed, such as helped pick cotton, and others. Landscape regular visits by children will make kids think that one day I want to be like mothers who breastfeed their children," says Dr Dewi Motik Pramono, MSI.
Goddess add though still small does not mean the kids have no idea, but what she saw children going to imprint on the memory so that it leads children to breastfeed her baby in the future.
"By giving milk will make the children become healthy, well behaved and the parents will have a strong emotional bond with the child," said chairman Indonesian Women's Congress.
