One of the main reasons that many women who intended to breastfeed end up feeding bottles is lack of information. Until a while ago it was believed that informing a mother was telling her “breast milk is the best”, and although it was a totally relevant fact, and it still is, it is insufficient.
That breast milk is the best for everyone and all mothers know it, the problem is that many continue to believe things like they can run out of milk overnight, as well as by the work and grace of the devil, and others, as many as 40% of mothers believe that milk quality varies by mother.
This makes them arrive at pediatric consultations insisting that their baby is hungry, perhaps not because of the amount "because I get enough", but because of the quality, which perhaps "should be analyzed", a phrase that husbands usually verbalize (at least in the health center where I work).
This data has been detected in a campaign of the College of Pharmacists of Seville, which was initiated in May of this year, in which they try to encourage mothers who wish to breastfeed without "mistakes or taboos."
One of those mistakes is the one commented, the belief that there are watery milks, without fat, without enough calories or similar things. In fact, one of the tests that has been done for a long time to know if a milk was good was to put a drop of milk on a nail. If the drop slipped, the milk was not good enough. If the drop remained on the nail, the milk did have enough properties to feed a baby.
Now we know, thankfully, that milk concentration is totally variable, so if we take a droplet from a chest at the beginning of a shot, it will probably come out so liquid that it slips, and if we take it out when the child has been sucking for a while, it will come out so concentrated that it will not move, so that test does not It makes no sense at present, although in his day he caused many babies to end up taking a bottle without really being necessary.
Concluding, no bad milk. The body of the newly born woman is so wise that when breastfeeding gives priority to the baby, that is, it takes the best and destines it for him, so if you ever thought that maybe you could not breastfeed your baby because maybe you were going To have low quality milk, remove it from the head. You may not be able to give it for another reason, but for this one, surely not.
