Breast milk is the first unplanned diet a human takes.More importantly, it’s the most healthy and nutrients full diet a human starts survival with.
So, why don’t we see some of the most interesting and amazing facts about this boon for the mankind.
* Breast milk contains proteins, fat carbohydrates, calcium, potassium, chlorine, phosphorus, sodium and many other nutrients.
* A woman’s body consumes 25% energy while producing milk.It’s 5% more than what our brain does.
* New borns can sense the smell of their mother’s breast milk.That is they reason why they automatically turn their head towards mother’s breasts.
* Breastfeeding helps a mother to recover much quickly from pregnancy.The hormonal acts during breastfeeding helps to the uterus to get back into the size before pregnancy.
* Breastfeeding helps a mother to lose nearly 600 calories in a day.This is actually heavily beneficial for the woman’s body.
* As breast milk is filled with nutrients, it has the healing power to fight with infections.So, feeding a baby with breast milk is must to protect the new born from infections.
* Human breast milk contains more calories and fat than Goat’s milk and Cow’s milk.However, woman’s breast milk doesn’t contain proteins as much as Cow’s milk or Goat’s milk has.
* There are many human milk banks or mother milk banks in the world, where a mother donates her milk for other children.
* The taste of breast milk may change slightly depending upon what the mother eats.So, children get to taste different flavours.
* Babies don’t drink the full of what is available.They drink only the part their bodies require, which is 67% from the availability according to research.
* It doesn’t matter whether the mother is a leftie nor not, the right breast is said to be producing more milk than the left.
