The tandem breastfeeding It is what happens when a woman breastfeeds her child and in a new pregnancy she continues breastfeeding until the next baby is born, at which time they both drink breast milk.
This event, more and more frequent thanks to the fact that few people defend the myth that says that you cannot breastfeed while pregnant, still raises some reasonable doubts, such as the one we are discussing today. In tandem breastfeeding, Does the milk adapt to the age of the little one or the older one?
Yes, of course you can breastfeed during pregnancy
Luckily, there was a long time when many women stopped breastfeeding their children during pregnancy, many really sorry and feeling guilty, because gynecologists and midwives said they had to. They had to do it, as they were told, for their health and for that of the baby they were pregnant, because if the child who suckled continued to do so, it would leave them with significant deficiencies that would affect her at the level of health and energy and also the fetus.
However, it is known that this does not happen. And it is known not only because women who breastfeed end up having healthy children just like those who don't, but because nature seems to have foreseen this and in most cases, throughout pregnancy, milk production decreases considerably.
In Babies and more Breastfeeding twins: nine keys to happy breastfeedingSometimes, the production is so low that the child is already weaned. This happened with my first two children when Miriam became pregnant with the following: they had to leave them so little that they lost interest. On other occasions, although the production is very low, children continue to take the breast because they say that "here it does not come out, but I am divinely", and on other occasions the production is not reduced so much and the child ensures that Yes, it comes out.
Breast milk adapts to the baby's age
The fact is that we are all clear that breast milk is adaptive and that its composition changes as the baby grows. The milk of a two-year-old boy, for example, contains a concentration of nutrients very different from what he had when he was a baby. So what happens if you breastfeed a two-year-old child and one who has just been born?
Well, the most logical. Nature gives priority to the baby, to the newcomer, and adapts his qualities to his age. In this way, the older one drinks baby's breast milk, which is not at all inappropriate, but different from the one he drank before, and in any case better than any other milk that he can get to drink (in case someone would think to say that better stop breastfeeding, that milk does not feed him).
And colostrum too?
Yes. Colostrum too. As we told you three years ago, the pregnant woman's milk is mature milk until at some point near the birth, or from the birth, change substantially to be colostrum. A colostrum with the same properties as that of mothers who do not do tandem, and therefore perfectly prepared for the baby.
If the elder is breastfeeding then, he will be taking colostrum, from the fourth or fifth day the transitional milk and later, towards the second week, the milk matures again, which is the definitive and which will change based on the baby's age Just born
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