BREAST FEEDING YOUR INFANT by dardemamar.net
Breast feeding a newly born child.
Doctors will tell you that breastfeeding
is the best way to feed that new baby in your life..
All these things can be found in breast milk. Lactoferrin helps with absorption
rate of iron and keeps the gut healthy. Lipases which assists in the digestion
of fats and assists in supplying growth hormones. It also contains living immune
cells and antibodies which protect the baby, so its the baby's first immunization
No modern substite can ever match mothers milk it provides protection against
allergies, asthma, and eczema in the child and studies show it leads to optimal
brain development.
In a study of growth charts from the W.H.O. found that artificially fed babies
are at a higher risk of obesity once they become adults. Breastfed infants grow
at what is considered to be a normal rate, which is quite fast in the first
12 months and then slowing down.
In areas of the world where water quality is suspect there is likelyhood of
disease transference from breast milk.
A healthy baby means a happier mother and family with less stress placed on
them . It also means less trips to the medical practitioner and that means less
money spent. Because breastfeeding aids in the development of a well balanced
child its future is possibly a brighter one being able to fit harmoniously into
the society. More importantly it might save his or her life in the infant years
because of the added immune boost they receive.
There is a lot of hype about, in this "bottle fed world" we have been
brought up on, about breastfeeding being bad for mothers, Well the latest research
shows that mothers who breastfeed while initially have their bone density drop,
upon weaning the density rapidly returns back to normal and even strengthens,
thus contributing to less likelyhood of the onset of osteoporosis. Mothers who
breastfeed are closer to their infants creating stronger bonds with the intimacy.
It's nutrient rich.
It's flavour changes with the mothers diet.
It has an immunizing effect.
It promotes a more natural growth rate.
It helps in Optimal brain development with ingredients like docosohexaenoic
acid and arachidonic acid, which help with brain and retinal development.
There is less concern over water quality in regions of unsafe drinking water.
Its found that breastfeeding babies have lower incidents of sids.