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Introduction to Breastfeeding and its benefit

Breast milk contains nutrients and antibodies that can't be engineered. It's easier to digest than artificial milk and the antibodies in breast milk will boost your baby's immune system.

Realizing the many benefits of breast milk, as a mum-to-be, I had read  so many books, magazines and even search on the internet to find out more helpful tips on how to make it a successful one and better prepare myself emotionally and physically fit to breastfeed my little precious soon.

These are the reading materials which had provided me with a lot of useful information.

In order to encourage a mother to breastfeeding, first of all she has to know about the countless benefits she and her baby can get from this practice. Below are the breastfeeding benefits that I had gathered that I wish to share with mothers and mothers-to be out there!!  

The Benefits of Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding helps you bond with your baby.In other words, it enables you and your child to interact fully, resulting in a closer bonding. 
• Breastfeeding helps you lose weight quickly. 
• Over a long term, breastfeeding helps ward off breast and ovarian cancers. 
• It can also delay the return of your menses (lactational amenorrhea). This not only helps reduce blood loss, but also acts as a natural contraception that may aid in spacing pregnancies. 
• It helps your uterus return to its normal size faster, as oxytocin ( a kind of hormone produced during breastfeeding encourages uterine contractions.
•  It does help to reduce the risk of osteoporosis in old age.You feel emotionally satisfied. Oxytocin produced during breastfeeding promotes nurturing and loving feelings in you.
• The breast milk that is first produced ,colostrum helps to reduce jaudice for your child.
• Breastfeeding is convenient anywhere, anytime.
• Breast milk is free!
• Breast milk is always fresh, clean and at the right temperature for your child to consume.
• Breast milk is easy for your little one to digest.
• Breast milk is naturally balanced with important biofactors, including alpha protein, arachidonic acis (AA) and dososahexaenoic acid (DHA), nucleotides, selenium, natural carotenoids, fat, carbohydrate and protein, needed for your child's physical growth and development.
• Breast milk is your child's best protection against allergies diseases, such as food allergy and eczema.
• Breast milk helps reduce your child's risk developing asthma.
• It also lowers your child's chances of having gastrointestinal problems ( eg. infection, diarrhea).
• The action of sucking promotes better jaw and dental development in your child.
• Breastfeeding helps to reduce pollution. (eg. Extraction from cow pollutes the air in the form of methane gas.)

Reference: 

Babybook 2nd Edition 2011

Golden Advice on Breastfeeding. Wyeth

The Breastfeeding Book 2004

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