Does playing with mobile phone during breastfeeding affect baby's intelligence?

For many mothers, each breastfeeding session is long and boring, and they always want to find something to do, such as playing games or watching videos. However, what breastfeeding mothers do may affect the development of their children. So, will watching mobile phones while breastfeeding affect the baby’s IQ? You have to avoid the following four things!

1. Breastfeeding while looking at your phone

Nowadays, everyone has become a "mobile phone user", and mothers also have their phones in their hands anytime and anywhere. However, if you keep looking at the phone while breastfeeding, first of all, the effect of mobile phone radiation on adults is relatively small, but it will have adverse effects on babies who are immature in all aspects of growth and development; secondly, if you keep using the phone in your left hand and holding the baby in your right hand, the two breasts will suck at different levels, resulting in less breast milk on one side and more milk on the other.

2. Breastfeeding when angry

When people get angry, the secretion of adrenaline will increase significantly, resulting in rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure, and emotional excitement. Although it does not produce "toxins" as some articles claim, breastfeeding during anger is indeed bad for the health of the baby and may easily lead to insufficient milk secretion. It is very important for breastfeeding mothers to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude!

3. Breastfeeding while lying flat

The mother is busy taking care of the newborn and doing housework. She is very tired every day and just wants to lie down when breastfeeding. However, frequent feeding while lying down can easily cause the baby to spit up milk and cause otitis media; in addition, when the baby lies flat to drink milk, the lower jaw needs to be stretched forward, which affects the normal growth and development of the lower jaw and causes overbite.

4. Breastfeeding while watching TV series

If it’s not good to look at the phone, it’s okay to just watch TV series, right? However, when watching TV series, babies are easily attracted by the colorful pictures on TV, which causes distraction of concentration and prolonged feeding time. In addition, mothers ignore babies when watching TV series and lack family education. The baby's language development cannot be stimulated and the time to speak will be delayed.