Baby Feeding Tips: Heartburn and pregnancy

What is a heartburn and why it seems to be getting worse during pregnancy?

Heartburn, reflux or indigestion is a burning sensation in your food pipe knowing as oesophagus. The condition is very common during the pregnancy, especially in the later stages as your expanding uterus puts pressure on your stomach. Also, the presence of the hormone progesterone, can make it worse because can help the valve between your your oesophagus and stomach to became softer and less likely to close properly. It can make small amount of stomach acid scape up into your oesophagus.

You can read more about what cause heartburn or reflux in http://babyfeedingtips.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-cause-heartburn.html and what can you do about it http://babyfeedingtips.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-can-i-do-about-heartburn.html.

Breast milk supply

Mothers milk is produced in glands that are deeply buried in breast and not in the fatty tissue that is the reason breast size is no indication of how much milk you can produce; small breasts are perfectly adequate milk produces.

Your milk supply is according to demand all what your baby need.

Your breast are stimulated to produce milk by your baby sucking so more she feeds, more milk will be produce.

15 days after give birth the mother milk supply will supply will decrease.

It is a normal body process and also when most of the women give up of breastfeeding their babies believing they are failure in the breastfeeding mission. It is important that mother are aware of it and keep going the amount of milk available will fluctuate according to baby's needs and once they starts on solids the breast will produce less milk.

Did you know...

your baby's sucking sends messages to the hypothalamus, which stimulates your pituitary gland to release two hormones; protactin, responsable for making milk in the milk glands, and oxytocin, which causes milk to pass from the glands to the milk reservoirs behind the areola.

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