Part 2: In addition to breast milk's nutritional and health advantages, there is yet another significant reason to breastfeed. Most mothers prefer to begin feeding their babies from the left breast, before switching to the other side. This is evident even in left-hand mothers. The explanation for this preference: the mother soon perceives that the newborn is more relaxed when nursing from the left breast, where the infant is soothed by listening to the mother's heart beat--sounds and rhythms the baby is attuned to during pregnancy.
Listening with the right ear while feeding off the mother's left breast results in the baby's right brain developing into the "emotional brain," while the left brain expands into the dominant or "speech brain." In 1925, Austrian psychiatrist, Von Economo, described VEN cells which are special neurons in a small portion of the brain called the Insula. Interestingly, the right insula has more VEN cells than the left insula. Third and final part to followRegards, GL | | Virus-free. www.avast.com |
