What is the process of breastfeeding

Hormonal changes during labor, signaled that should start to produce milk. Since the generation of an milk does not occur during pregnancy, and is stimulated by birth, breast milk is in the case of premature birth. Milk produced in the first few days after birth, differs from the milk that comes later. The very first milk called colostrum and contains more antibodies, proteins and minerals than "mature" milk, produced when the child is three - four days. Colostrum is one of the best tools of preventive medicine. It provides the baby with antibodies that protect it from infections in their transition from an environment where there were no bacteria in the environment that they complete. Colostrum is thicker than mature milk and has a yellowish color. Mature milk is divided into two types: "first milk" and "permanent milk." The first milk is about one-third of all the available milk and permanent - the rest. While in the ducts that lead from the cells that produce milk to the nipple, the first milk is always available to the child. There is less fat and protein, and therefore fewer calories than in a constant milk. Permanent milk accumulates in the cells that produce milk. In contrast to the first milk a permanent milk does not come automatically to the child. It is released oxytocin, the same hormone that promotes muscle contractions of the uterus during the first few days after birth. Oxytocin causes the cells that produce milk, to shrink and thereby disposed of permanently milk. This process is commonly called the "milk ejection reflex." Impact of oxytocin is so great, that milk actually erupts from his chest. If a permanent milk will not be released, the child will not have enough milk, most of the time it will be hungry, so it will be bad to develop and grow. On the release of oxytocin and, consequently, a permanent milk can affect a variety of factors. The main of them is the lack of reflex milk ejection.