Genesis yellow baby from breastfeeding (breastmilk jaundice) are very rare. But not to worry, the problem due to a yellow baby feeding lasted only 1-2 days. After the process is stopped breastfeeding 1-2 days yellow baby will recover from breast milk may be continued so again.

So far people only know the cause of yellow baby due to differences in rhesus mother with his father. But it could jaundice resulting from breastfeeding, although their number is small.

This type of jaundice usually appears in the second week of life a baby or after 7 days and will reach its peak around day 10 of birth.

The incidence of yellow baby because breast milk is very small at around 1-2 percent of the birth of a baby. Up to now not known what causes of jaundice due to feeding.

As quoted from the book The Baby Book written by William and Martha Sears, to see if the baby suffered from jaundice, breast milk or not, the mother was asked to stop breastfeeding for 12-24 hours. If the infant bilirubin levels decreased to 20 percent quickly, then the results of these doctors correctly diagnosed.

However, mothers can still breastfeed her baby if the level of bilirubin is not too high. If the doctor asks the mother to not breastfeed for several days, then the mother should pump breast milk every 3 hours until allowed to return to breastfeeding.

Mother whose infant jaundice do not need to stop breastfeeding, but it is recommended to follow how the proper feeding and the frequency of breast-feeding. A number of fluids and calories derived from milk is necessary to help the newborn to clean the excess bilirubin in the body.

Nobody knows for sure why this could happen, according to Breastfeedingbasics, there is something in some mother's milk may increase bilirubin reasbsorption, thus affecting the liver in the process of reducing bilirubin levels.

Bilirubin is a yellow pigment produced by the solution of hemoglobin (Hb) in the liver. Normal levels of bilirubin for the baby being born with a month of about 12 mg / dl of blood, whereas if the baby is born prematurely or not enough in the normal bilirubin levels were 10 mg / dl blood.

In babies who have jaundice due to feeding will usually be stopped breastfeeding her for 1-2 days and replaced temporarily with formula. But after the bilirubin levels back to normal, then the mother can breastfeed her baby again and continue to breastfeed.

Breastmilk till now still the only food option for newborns, except on certain conditions which require the consumption of the baby to stop breastfeeding. Because some substances in milk may help improve weight loss and useful for improving infant immune system.