Learning from the Beginning

Every parent would want to have a healthy and intelligent children. All resources and effort will be made by the mother and father in order to achieve that goal. Starting from the often hear classical music, take vitamins, exercise diligently to provide infant formula containing AA and DHA are believed to increase and stimulating children’s intelligence.

But they often forget the simplest way to make their kid smart is buy giving exclusive breastfeeding (of course the quality of nutrient in mother foods also need to be look after and manage well). Many of mothers especially in big cities giving instant milk instead of exclusive breastfeeding. With breastfeeding, actually giving mothers benefit more rarely affected by breast cancer.

There are two factors that affect intelligence, ie genetic and environmental factors. According to dr. Bernhard Devlin of the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, United States estimates that genetic factors accounted for only 48% of children in shaping IQ. The rest is environmental factors.

Environment is important because it has a bigger role than genetics. Environmental factors consist of foster care, sharpening and compassion. Foster care means providing the need for physical growth, sharpening means providing stimulation or education, and compassion means giving needs.

In order for the development of health and intelligence of children is not disrupted, parents need to maintain nutrition. It is important for growth and brain development of children, especially because of his ability associated with brain growth.

Exclusive breastfeeding is the best nutrition in quality and quantity at the time of brain growth that occurs leap from 0 to 6 months.
Breast milk contains nutrients that have specific functions for brain growth, among others, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (DHA and AA) for growth of the brain and retina, cholesterol to myelinisasi neural networks, taurine for neuron transmitter inhibitors and membrane stabilizers, lactose to the growth of the brain, and kolin which may improve memory.

Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months but is great for brain development, also great 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.