The Anonymous Widower

Saving Babies By Breastfeeding

I don’t know much about breastfeeding babies, but this report on Sky has a lot of sense to it. This is the first bit.

The lives of 95 babies could be saved every hour if mothers started breastfeeding their newborns in the hour after their birth, a charity has said.

Receiving a mother’s first milk within an hour will kickstart the child’s immune system, making a newborn three times more likely to survive, according to a report by Save the Children.

I should say, that as someone, who knows about breeding racehorses, that you always get the new born foal to have the first feed as it’s the best.

My stud groom would also milk the dead mare and give that to the foal in a bottle, if she had sadly died in the foaling.

February 18, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Children, Horses