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Indian Baby Feeding » Breast Feeding
Breastfeeding can be a truly rewarding experience and it also has an extraordinary range of positive effects on both mother and child.
The Benefits
1) Breastfed babies are five times less likely than formula-fed babies to be admitted to hospital with gastro-enteritis symptoms like diarrhoea and vomiting in the first three months of life.
2) Breastfed babies are five times less likely to suffer from urinary tract infections.
3) Premature babies born between 30 and 36 weeks gestation are 20 times less likely to develop an inflammatory disease of the bowel if they are breastfed.
4) Breast milk contains the right nutrients, in exactly the right amounts and proportions, to ensure that a baby's rapidly developing brain grows as well as it possibly can.
5) Breast milk contains antibodies, which provide protection for your baby from illness. It is not yet known how this affects your child in later life but it is thought that babies who are breastfed exclusively for at least four months may have a reduced risk of heart disease when they are adults.
6) Risk of breast cancer is less in women who have breastfed.
7) It is cheap (practically free and convenient. You can feed your baby anywhere and at anytime without the need to make up feeds.
8) Saves you paying for formula feeds. Breastmilk does not cpst money and there is no wastage of unconsumed milk.
The greatest stimulation for breast feeding is repeated & vigorous sucking of the breasts by the baby & complete emptying of the breasts each time in addition good nutritious diet sprouted grams plenty of milk, fruits & green vegetables for the mother before and after delivery.
The essentials for mother to breast feed the baby is
solitariness, confidence, practice and cleanness
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