Why is Breastfeeding Important for your Baby?
Breast milk helps keep your baby healthy.
It supplies all the necessary nutrients in the proper proportions.It protects against allergies, sickness, and obesity.It protects against diseases, like diabetes and cancer.It protects against infections, like ear infections.It is easily digested – no constipation, diarrhea or upset stomach.Babies have healthier weights as they grow.Breastfed babies score higher on IQ tests.
Breast milk changes constantly to meet babies' needs.
The milk changes in volume and composition according to the time of day, nursing frequency, and age of baby to promote healthy growth. Breast milk is the perfect food for your baby.
Breast milk is always ready and good for the environment.
It is available wherever and whenever your baby needs it.It is always at the right temperature, clean and free.No bottles to clean.Breastfeeding has no waste, so it is good for the environment.
Breastfeeding Helps the Uterus Contract
During pregnancy, your uterus grows immensely, expanding from the size of a pear to filling almost the entire space of your abdomen.
After delivery, your uterus goes through a process called involution, which helps it return to its previous size. Oxytocin, a hormone that increases throughout pregnancy, helps drive this process.
Your body secretes high amounts of oxytocin during labor to help deliver the baby and reduce bleeding
Oxytocin also increases during breastfeeding. It encourages uterine contractions and reduces bleeding, helping the uterus return to its previous size.
Studies have also shown that mothers who breastfeed generally have less blood loss after delivery and faster involution of the uterus
Why is Breastfeeding Important for You?
Mothers who breastfeed:
Have a reduced risk of Type 2 Diabetes and certain cancers such as breast cancerMay find it easier to return to what they weighed before they got pregnantStrengthen the bond with their children
It Also Saves Time and Money
To top the list, breastfeeding is completely free and requires very little effort.
By choosing to breastfeed, you won't have to:
Spend Money On Formula.
Calculate How Much Your Baby Needs To Drink Daily.
Spend Time Cleaning And Sterilizing Bottles.
Mix And Warm Up Bottles In The Middle Of The Night (Or Day).
Figure Out Ways To Warm Up Bottles While On The Go.
Breast Milk Is Always At The Right Temperature And Ready To Drink.
Making it Work – You Can Do It!
Some helpful hints:
Breastfeed soon after birth and breastfeed frequently 8 to 12 times in a 24 hour period.Hold your baby skin-to-skin.Keep your baby with you in the hospital.Do not give a pacifier or bottle until breastfeeding is well established.Give only breast milk.
Key point on importance of breast feeding your baby.
Breastfeeding will help reduce your baby's risk of:
obesity
Type 1 Diabetes
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Pneumonia And Other Respiratory Infections
Coughs and Colds
Gastrointestinal Illnesses
Vomiting, Diarrhea, Constipation, Urinary Tract Infection
Sear Infections That Can Damage Hearing, Meningitis
Childhood Cancers, Including Leukemia And Lymphoma Chrohn's Disease,
Ulcerative Colitis
Celiac Disease
Heart Disease And Liver Disease In Adulthood
Breastfeeding helps women:
heal after baby's birth and avoid severe post partum bleeding
return more quickly to pre pregnancy weight, burning 500 extra calories per day
have stronger bones later in life
build a strong emotional bond with their babies
relax; every time a baby feeds, the mother gets a surge of the bonding hormone oxytocin, which has a calming and relaxing effect.
save time and money; formula is expensive and time consuming to prepare. But breast milk is always ready and always at the right temperature - ideal when you're tired.
Later in life women who do not breastfeed are at higher risk for diabetes, osteoporosis, breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers.
Breast milk is the safest and healthiest food for your baby. It's easily digested and provides all the nutrition your baby needs for the first six months. Babies who breastfeed have better mental development and emotional security. They also have better jaw and tooth development and stronger immune systems.
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