Early Breast milk is liquid gold - known as liquid gold, colostrum (COH-TAB-spectrum) is the thick yellow milk first, as you do during pregnancy and after birth. This milk is very rich in nutrients and antibodies to protect your baby. Even if your child receives a small amount of colostrum at each feeding, it is the amount of his little tummy can hold. (Visit to know your child is getting enough milk to see how little your baby belly!)
Your breast milk changes as your baby grows - changes in what is called colostrum milk mature. The third to fifth day after birth, mature breast milk just the right amount of fat, sugar, water and protein to help your child continues to grow. It is a thinner type of milk the colostrum, but it contains all the nutrients and antibodies your baby needs.
Breast milk is easily digested - For most children - especially premature babies - breast milk is easily digested than formula. The proteins in the formula is based on cow's milk, and it takes time for babies' stomachs to adjust to the digest.
Fight breast milk against the disease - cells, hormones and antibodies in breast milk protects babies against disease. This protection is a unique formula that can not match the chemical composition of human milk. In fact, among bottle-fed children, ear infections and diarrhea are more common. Bottle-fed babies are at higher risk of:
Necrotizing (NEK-Roh TEYE-ZING), enterocolitis (TUR-en-COH-OH-LYT-ISS), a disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract in preterm infants.
Lower respiratory infections
Asthma
Obesity
Diabetes type 2
Research shows that breastfeeding may also reduce the risk of type 1 diabetes, childhood leukemia and atopic dermatitis (a type of skin rash) in infants. Breastfeeding also has been shown to reduce the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Infant).
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