Water blog #2.
...Throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding water is important. As the baby is developing in utero, the female’s blood volume increases, and water is needed to help make sure this happens...
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Breastfeeding can give your baby higher levels of cortisol, but this is not necessarily a bad thing in any way.
...What this does make me stop and think about is the long term effect of the cortisol on the baby, and if any of the effects, if they do exist, are negative, or not. If they are negative then how do we get the mother to destress?..
Not so surprising that breastfeeding might have other unexpected benefits like reduced occurrence of breast cancer...
...The researchers showed a “30 percent overall decreased risk of breast cancer coming back and a 28 percent decreased risk of dying from the cancer.” This is a great positive for breastfeeding to go along with all the benefits that the baby gets from the breast milk...
A new study links breastfeeding with IQ, and income, later in life.
...These studies are harder to do in more developed countries where higher socioeconomic groups are more apt to breastfeed. In Brazil, by contrast, the proportion of mothers breastfeeding is about equal throughout all of the socioeconomic groups...
Breastfeeding is not only vital for your baby's health but it is also important for the mother's health. New research shows that women who breastfeed for less than a 1 month have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes later in life than women who breastfeed longer than one month.