Front and back milk - how to feed?

All mothers heard about such concepts as front and rear milk, but how to distinguish one from another and what is the difference between them? Someone feeds the kids without problems, especially without thinking about the processes taking place in the mammary gland, while other mothers have a lot of questions related to feeding the baby. We will try to answer them.

What is the value of anterior and posterior breast milk?

In order for a child to develop correctly, gain weight well, be happy and full for most of the time, it must be properly fed with breast milk. For this, the child should receive both the front and back milk.

Milk coming in during the first minutes of feeding contains a lot of lactose (milk sugar), which gives it a special sweetish taste. It is almost colorless or even bluish, but it is no less useful. In front milk, the baby completely satisfies the body's need for liquid. In the rear milk, contain fats, lipids, essential amino acids - all that saturates the baby and gives him the opportunity to grow day by day.

It is impossible to accurately answer the question of how much front and back milk is contained in the mammary gland, because the body of each mother is individual and is adjusted for a specific child. One thing is known for sure - the front is much larger, and the back, caloric, quite a bit.

And how to properly feed, so that the baby gets both front and back milk? It is important that for two hours, no matter how many times the baby is applied to the chest (1,2,3, etc.), he drinks milk only from one breast and then he sooner or later gets to the rear - the most nutritious.

There is such a thing as "imbalance of the front and rear milk." This means that the milk of the mother is "wrong" and because of this the child has problems with digestion in the form of swelling, foamy and liquid stool.

In fact, there is no imbalance, and there is an incorrect application , when the child is offered one or the other breast unintentionally, completely without thinking about the two-hour interval. As a result, the baby receives only the front milk, and therefore he is constantly irritated because of hunger, poorly gaining weight and has problems in the form of constipation, followed by a disorder of the stool.