Offer Both Breasts at Each Feeding for Equal Amounts of Time

myth

If you are breast-feeding, you must always offer both breasts at each feeding for equal amounts of time.

reality
It’s more important to let your baby fi nish with one breast first, even if that means she doesn’t take the second breast at the same feeding.

the facts

Each time you breast-feed, you produce different types of milk. Foremilk is the initial breast milk that a baby drinks when she nurses at the beginning of a feeding. It resembles skim milk — high in volume but low in fat and calories. As the feeding progresses, the fat content of your breast milk increases and it begins to more closely resemble whole milk. Finally, toward the end of the feeding, your baby drinks hind milk, which is highest in calories and fat, and low in volume.

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