Mother's Milk is produced from a collaboration between the hormonal and neural factors. This alone is enough magic. Come browse from scratch. Start from estrogren hormone. Sex hormone estrogen is a hormone produced by the uterus to stimulate growth of sex organs, such as breast and pubic hair, regulate the menstrual cycle. The hormone estrogen also plays a role maintaining the texture and function of the breast. In pregnant women, the hormone estrogen makes breast nipple enlarge and stimulate growth of breast glands. In addition, the hormone estrogen to strengthen the uterine wall during contractions before delivery.
Breast itself consists of a collection of glands and fatty tissue that lies between the skin and breastbone. Glands in the breasts will produce milk after a woman giving birth. Milk glands called a lobule that form milk-producing lobes or sacs. There are 15 to 20 milk-producing sacs on each breast, which is connected with the collected milk ducts in the nipple. The inside of the breast consists of fatty tissue and fibrous tissue that are interconnected, which binds her breasts and influence the shape and size of the breast. There are also blood vessels and lymph nodes.
The milk was not produced during pregnancy because there are factors that suppress the release of the hormone prolactin. One of them thanks to the work that the hormone estrogen. It can be imagined if the milk has been produced since the beginning of pregnancy while no one has smoked, the mothers had to waste milk each day. Redundant is not it? God did not want to give in vain with the magic that gives to the milk production process so that the gland is not producing breast milk during pregnancy.
In a pregnant woman who breast glans will be developed further by the influence of estrogen, somatomamotropin, and prolactin. The process started in the first trimester of pregnancy. The hormone estrogen is used to create hypertrophy duct system (channel). Meanwhile, progesterone serves to add acini cells in the breast. Somatomamotropin acini functions to growth and changes in the cells, the formation of casein, lactalbumin, and laktoglobulin. During the process of pregnancy, breast milk does not come out because of the hormone prolactin, which stimulates milk expenditures is inhibited by Prolactin inhibiting hormone (PIH).
At the end of pregnancy your breasts will produce colostrum, although the amount of milk that can be produced was not much. Such conditions caused by the action of the hormone progesterone. When giving birth, when the placenta out of the body, progesterone levels went down dramatically, while the hormone prolactin remain high. Such circumstances make the production of milk increased in number. Production process to meet the breast milk is one to three days. Therefore, do not worry if your milk has not come out or coming out very little in the first days. At this time the exit is still colostrum.
Colostrum is the first liquid produced when breast milk production begins. Colostrum liquid form of thin, sweet, and easy to digest. Initially shaped colostrum is thick and yellow. The closer to delivery, the colostrum to thaw and pale color.
At the time of Mother's Milk has been produced, the role of the hormone oxytocin is needed. This hormone ensures the occurrence of muscle contraction around the milk duct, moving the milk from the mammary glands to the nipple so easily achieved by the infant during feeding. Hmm ... Interesting is not it? The process of breastfeeding. So, do not forget, "Say YES to breast milk"
