Nursing mothers

Breastfeeding is the best way to feed a child during the first six months of life, as breastfeeding has been shown to have many benefits for both mother and child, especially if the mother continues to breastfeed her baby during the first year to the age of two. Studies have shown that some unborn babies have had tooth decay as a result of artificial feeding. We need to know the role of breastfeeding in avoiding tooth decay in children.

Follow the following steps to ensure the health of your baby's mouth:

• Use breastfeeding as a means of feeding the baby instead of artificial feeding methods.
• Use breastfeeding only during the first six months of the child's life, in addition to continuing to breastfeed the baby with some solid foods along with breast milk until the baby is 2 years old.
• Attention to oral and dental health since the first appearance of the baby's teeth.
• If the mother or father's teeth are toothed, the family should check the child's teeth early (6-12 months) and compare her health condition with the teeth of family members.
• Try to get the baby used not to tooth off a bottle of milk or otherwise.
• Make sure that the child does not sleep in his hand a bottle of milk containing other water.
• Check the teeth of a 12-month-old child in the absence of caries in the teeth of a family member
• Do not continue to breastfeed the baby during the night, and the child should not be removed until the completion of his meal
• The Dental Association and the Academy of Pediatrics of the America recommend the use of fluoride-containing products to strengthen a child's teeth.

The importance of breastfeeding is due to the mother's realization that most of her medications reach in varying amounts to her milk. These amounts of medication usually don't hurt the baby, but that doesn't always prevent the baby from developing any health problems.

The guidelines for taking the mother's medication determine how much time she travels through her bloodstream and then into her baby's milk. For example, if the mother is given the drug by injection (needle), it reaches directly into her blood and then reaches her milk faster than other methods of taking the drug.