Every parent would want to have a healthy and intelligent child. All the resources and effort will be made by the mother and father for that purpose is achieved. Starting from the often hear classical music, take vitamins, exercise diligently to provide infant formula containing AA and DHA which are believed to increase the intelligence of children.
Actually there is an easy and inexpensive way for healthy and intelligent children namely with exclusive breastfeeding. Unfortunately, in many mothers do not breast feed their babies. Whereas with breastfeeding, health and intelligence of the baby was assured. Not only that, his mother would get one benefit that is becoming more rare breast cancer.
You may be confused, how breast milk can nourish and educate your children? There are 2 factors that affect intelligence, ie genetic and environmental factors. According to dr. Bernard Devlin of the University of Pittsburgh Faculty of of Medicine ,United States estimates that genetic factors accounted for only 48 %in shaping the child's IQ . The rest is environmental factors.
Environment is important because it has a bigger role than genetics. Environmental factors consist of fulfilling the needs for physical growth, provide stimulation or education, and provide psychosocial needs.
For the development of health and children's intelligence is not disrupted, parents need to maintain nutrition. This is important for growth and development of children, especially the brain because of intelligence related to brain growth. Exclusive breastfeeding is the best nutrition in the quality and quantity at the time of brain growth that occurs leap from 0 to 6 months.
Breast milk contains nutrients that have a specific function for the growth of the brain such as long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (DHA and AA) for growth of the brain and retina, cholesterol to mayonnaise's nerve tissue, taurine to neuron transmitter inhibitors and membrane stabilizers, lactose to the growth of the brain, which may Collin improve memory.
Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months in addition to good for brain development, is also good for preparing baby's digestive system. Because at the time of birth, the baby's digestive enzymes is still incomplete and can only be used to digest milk. Keep in mind that breast milk contains more than 100 kinds of enzymes that help the absorption of nutrients contained in breast milk.
In addition, the process of breastfeeding is not only feeding but also educate and provide psychosocial needs. Nursing process is educational stimulation for children because there is eye contact, talk to, hugged, and caressed by the mother.
