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What are the benefits of breastfeeding?

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#1 ·
Number ONE, and it shouldn't be, is the prevention of obesity.
Look around at all of the people who were NOT fed human milk as infants.
They are fat.
Human milk went out of 'fashion' in the 1940s, and that generation did not breastfeed in the 1960s and1970s … in many 1st world countries, there is a sharp upward incline of fat people from the 1970s until today.
Formula contains ADDED sugar.
Breasts feeding prevents the disruption of the microbiome, as does vaginal delivery.
Breastfeeding is the PERFECT food for babies and children.
If you give birth to a preemie, your milk will be higher in fat.
During each individual feeding, the content of breastmilk changes to meet your baby's needs.
During each day, the content of your milk changes to meet your babies needs.
The milk you produce at 2 weeks, is not the same as the milk you produce at 8 months.
Human milk is the PERFECT food for babies and young children.
Only 3% of the female population does not have enough milk glands to feed a baby, yet 80% say that they couldn't feed their babies after the first few weeks…
Breast milk will cure your postpartum acne, your baby's cradle cap, and DIAPER RASH, which occurs rarely in breastfed babies.
It will heal your sore nipples.
Human milk supplies your baby with important nutrients for brain growth…breast fed babies have higher IQs.
Breastfeeding ultimately prevents cancer for both of you, and helps you lose postpartum weight.
Breastfeeding releases hormones which counter balance the drop in hormones after giving birth which helps prevent post partum depression.
After the initial,pain with first babies, the release of oxytocin feels amazing!
The act of breastfeeding makes you relax.
The distance from the baby's eyes to your face is exactly the distance in which a newborn can focus.
A newborn's visual choice, your face.
The skin to skin contact is imperative for growing brains.
Lastly, in the US, the minimum cost of Formula feeding in the first year is $2500.00 before accounting for the time and money spent on bottles, water, electricity to wash bottles, time spent buying, making, and storing formula. The money thrown away on left over formula…and all of the money spent on sick visits to the pediatrician.
Then there is the money spent on allergy doctors, dermatologists, and later on heart disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disease.
There is more, but I'm tired.
If you are having a baby, please nurse them…it takes three months with baby one for it to become routine. Each subsequent baby takes much less time.
Last of all, breast feed baby poop does not smell offensive.
 
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#2 · (Edited)
For a really long time, my husband and I agreed that we won't breastfeed when we have kids. He would say, "those are mine, I won't let our kids suck you dry." I agreed with him. His mother owns a well-known surrogacy company, so babies who were born to a different woman but sent home with the biological parents were formula fed. Sometimes the surrogate mom would pump some for them, but most of the parents are actually from Europe (company based in USA). I'm pretty sure my husband's mother also formula-fed my 192.168.100.1 husband and his sister.
 
#4 ·
Breastfeeding comes with a plethora of benefits; firstly for mum it reduces the rate of having ovarian and breast cancer, provides as a natural contraception, furthermore it also helps you to lose the postpartum weight, in terms of the baby,
Fewer instances of allergies, eczema, and asthma.
Fewer childhood cancers, including leukemia and lymphomas.
Lower risk of type I and II diabetes, reduces the instances of Crohn's disease and colitis., lower rates of respiratory illness and fewer speech and orthodontic problems.
 
#5 ·
Breastfeeding comes with a plethora of benefits; firstly for mum it reduces the rate of having ovarian and breast cancer, provides as a natural contraception, furthermore it also helps you to lose the postpartum weight, in terms of the baby,
Fewer instances of allergies, eczema, and asthma.
Fewer childhood cancers, including leukemia and lymphomas.
Lower risk of type I and II diabetes, reduces the instances of Crohn's disease and colitis., lower rates of respiratory illness and fewer speech and orthodontic problems.
for more information in terms of receiving breastfeeding support and advice and the benefits of breastfeeding, check out the websites below:
 
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