Give Child Best Nutritional Start Flashcards
Breast milk contains a variety of (2)
Nutrients
Proteins
Breast milk contains _ factors
Growth
Breast milk contains (a)
Antibodies
Breast milk contains _ vital to baby’s development
Hormones
Breast milk cannot be _
Replicated
Due to mother-to-child interaction, breastfeeding plays an important role in
Strengthening baby’s sensory and emotional circuitry
Sensory and emotional circuitry is critical to baby’s _ development (2)
Cognitive
Socio-emotional
Breastfeeding may lower mothers risk of developing (bc,oc)
Breast cancer
Ovarian cancer
Breastfeeding may lower mothers risk of developing (cd,o)
Cardiovascular disease
Osteoporosis
Breastfeeding may lower mothers risk of developing (o)
Obesity
_ kickstarts breast milk production
Hormonal changes
Hormonal changes caused by
Different stages of pregnancy and birth
Ducts that gold milk called
Alveoli
During pregnancy, alveoli _
Swell
_ stimulates alveoli cells and milk ducts in breast to grow
Increased estrogen and progesterone levels due to pregnancy
_ releases once baby is born to trigger alveoli to produce milk
Prolactin hormone
When baby suckles, _ is released
Oxytocin hormone
Oxytocin causes muscles around alveoli cells to
Squeeze milk out of milk duct in nipple
Oxytocin squeezing milk known as _
The let-down reflex
First milk mother produces in the days after giving birth is
Golden
Golden milk called
Colostrum
Colostrum is particularly _ causing baby to get best start (2)
Rich
Concentrated
Colostrum is packed with (p,a)
Protein
Antibodies
Colostrum packed with vitamin (3)
A
D
B12