We have a few fascinating facts about breastfeeding that you will love to know!
- Who needs the gym? The metabolic energy needed to breastfeed a baby each day is the amount you’d use to walk seven miles.
- It’s not always easy to learn, but it is instinctual. Newborns held skin-to-skin in the first hour or two after birth may push their way toward mum’s breast and start feeding on their own.
- Liquid gold. Human milk is sold on the Internet for £3 per ounce. That’s about 262 times the price of oil.
- You’re probably a righty. Almost three-quarters of mums produce more milk with their right breast (and it has nothing to do with being right-handed).
- Distinctive scent. Breastfed babies can practically pick their mums out of a lineup based on smell alone.
- Know your nipple. Breast milk sprays out of many holes, not just one. The exact number varies from mum to mum.
- Bigger isn’t necessarily better. The amount of breast milk a mum produces has nothing to do with her breast size.
- Implants don’t impact. Most women with breast implants are still able to breastfeed.
- A “breastfeeding high.” Nursing a baby triggers the release of the hormone oxytocin, which relaxes both mum and baby.
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