Open before why milk?

The saying goes, \"open milk\", refers to the postnatal breastfeeding the baby for the first time. \"Open milk\" good earlier or later, and people have different opinions in recent years in the past to rest of maternal and infant will be well, that \"open milk\" later, and generally 24-48 hours to give a baby the breast after delivery; on even more later in preterm infants. But in recent years, some foreign scholars believe that early open milk is good for both mother and baby. Obstetrics and Pediatrics in China scholar holds the same view.

Postpartum lactation is a physiological phenomenon. Maternal breast milk secretion, in addition to and breast development relating to the status of, mainly by regulation of the pituitary gland. Baby sucking nipples, can stimulate the pituitary gland, paroxysmal releasing prolactin, promoting the secretion of breast milk and can stimulate the pituitary release oxytocin, thereby stimulating the mammary gland and gland myoepithelial cells contraction of the pipe, tube sinus lifts milk lost to milk.

If not breastfeeding early after the baby, pituitary is not stimulated, prolactin secretion not, a long time, even if the baby and then suck the nipple, pituitary also did not respond, or milk is very small. Some mothers want to feed the child, but because open milk too late, so back to the milk, think feeds also make it, it is a pity. In addition, sucking the nipples can also cause uterine contractions, reduces postpartum bleeding, uterine recovery, you can prevent or reduce neonatal physiological weight loss, you can also promote feelings of mother.

Feed later is detrimental for neonatal health. Feed the heavier of late neonatal jaundice; some do not eat for two days after birth, hypoglycemia, brain damage; some dehydration to heat. Therefore, whether it is day or night-time delivery, within 6 hours after delivery, as long as the mother\'s health allows, you can begin breastfeeding. In front of the breast, nipple clean first, then let baby suck.