Breastfeeding: Importance

Breast milk is the best, the most practical and the cheapest food for the newborn. Breastfeeding should therefore actually be a matter of course for mothers. But it isn’t, as a look at current statistics shows.True, in Germany more than 90 percent of babies delivered in hospitals are placed at the mother’s breast. But by … Breastfeeding: Importance

Who was Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis?

He was also called the “savior of mothers”. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (born July 1, 1818) was a Hungarian gynecologist and discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever. This infection, accompanied by high fever (puerperal sepsis), took the lives of women in childbirth on an almost epidemic scale and was also known as “death of women … Who was Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis?