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- Some things can cause exclusive breastfeeding to fail
- 1. Give honey or water
- 2. Too often breastfeeding from a bottle
- 3. Think that milk comes out a little
- 4. Diet or limit eating while breastfeeding
- 5. Using KB too fast
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Ideally, babies should be given exclusive breastfeeding since birth until the first 6 months of life. Even so, there are many things that can make the experience of exclusive breastfeeding vary between mothers and children. There are mothers who run smoothly during this period, but there are also those who find it difficult to breastfeed their baby. If you fall into the second category, try to think for a moment. Maybe some of the things you have been doing so far have caused exclusive ASI programs to fail unnoticed.
Some things can cause exclusive breastfeeding to fail
Exclusive breastfeeding for six months is not easy. However, some of the things below are unexpected to add to your difficulties so that you unexpectedly thwart your exclusive breastfeeding business for your little one.
1. Give honey or water
Many Indonesian people who still believe that applying honey on a baby's lips can redden the color of his lips, or to overcomedry baby lips. However,this is what unwittingly makes exclusive breastfeeding programs fail miserably.
Remember, exclusive breastfeeding means you only have to give milk to the baby for six months. In fact, just giving water is not allowed. Things that can still be given to babies during exclusive breastfeeding are like medicines, vitamins, or mineral drops.
2. Too often breastfeeding from a bottle
Many working mothers give milk through milk bottles so that their children can still get exclusive breastfeeding. Even so, constantly giving bottled breast milk to babies can make babies experience nipple confusion sohe will refuse when offered breastfeeding directly from the mother's breast.
Confused nipples can make it difficult for babies to get breast milk from the mother's breast.
3. Think that milk comes out a little
Apparently the mind can affect the production of breast milk. If the mother constantly thinks that the milk that comes out a little or the milk is not smooth (even though there are actually no problems), it does not rule out the possibility that this will actually happen.
Stress because the mother continues to think that the production of ASI can cause the release of the hormone cortisol which stimulates the production of stunted milk. As a result, milk production can be disrupted and become less. This certainly can interfere with exclusive breastfeeding for six months.
4. Diet or limit eating while breastfeeding
After giving birth, of course the mother wants to get her weight back. This encourages the mother to limit eating or dieting while breastfeeding. Even though during breastfeeding, mothers still need a lot of balanced nutritious food intake so that the milk production is maintained.
If the diet interferes with milk production, this can certainly inhibit exclusive breastfeeding for babies for the next six months.
5. Using KB too fast
After giving birth to a baby, of course the mother is not ready to get pregnant again. This makes the mother decide to immediately install contraception (or birth control) after giving birth so as not to concede to pregnancy.
However, using contraception too quickly can actually inhibit milk production. Certain contraceptives, such as IUDs and birth control pills, are reported to interfere with the production of hormones that stimulate milk production.
