Facts about Breastfeeding

IT'S CUSTOM MADE

  • breast milk contains at least 100 ingredients that are not found in cow's milk and that can't be synthesized in the laboratory.
  • The composition of breast milk changes constantly to meet a baby's ever changing needs
    • It's different in the morning than it is in the late afternoon.
    • It's different at the beginning of a feeling than at the end
    • It's different the first month than the seventh
    • It's different for a premature baby than for a term baby.
  • The nutrients in breast milk are matched to an infant's needs and his or her ability to handle them. For example, breast milk contain less sodium than cow's milk formula, making it easier for a baby's kidney to handle
  • By giving only beeastmilk and no other liquid to the baby for the first six months. Breastmilk has ll the other and nutrients that the baby needs for the first six months after which the baby shouldbe given appropriate complementary foods while continuing breastfeeding 

IT GOES DOWN EASILY

  • Breast milk is designed for human baby's sensitive and still-developing digestive system, rather than for a young calf's
  • Breastfed babies maybe less likely to suffer from gas and excessive spitting up

IT'S A TUMMY SOOTHER

  • Breast milk appears to reduce the risk of digestive upset both by destroying harmful micro-organisms and by encouraging the growth of beneficial ones.

IT KEEPS DIAPER RASH AWAY

  • The breastfed baby's sweet-smelling movements are less likely to cause diaper rash, as well as the less objectionable odor. Though this advantage disappears once solids are introduced

IT'S AN INFECTION PREVENTER

  • They will come down with fewer colds, ear infections, lower respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, and other illnesses than bottle-fed infants, and when they do, they will usually recover more quickly and with fewer complications.
  • It also improves the immune response to immunizations for most diseases
  • It may offer some protection against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
  • Breastmilk reduces the risk of acute infections such as diarrhea, pneumonia, influenza, and meningitis.

IT'S A BRAIN BOOSTER

  • Breastfeeding appears to slightly increase a child's IQ
  • Human breast mikk enhances brain development and improves cognitive development. 

IT BUILDS STRONGER MOUTHS

  • Babies who are breastfeed are less likely to get cavities later on in childhood.

PROTECTS AGAINST ILLNESSES

🍼 It protects against chronic disease in children such as allergies, diabetis, ulcerative colitis, Chron's disease, high blood pressure and obesity in later life. 

PROTECTS FROM ALLERGIES

🍼 The first feedings of colostrum literally 'seal gut' (the porous lining of the intestine), providing barrier to the absorption of allergy - producing agents. Both colostrum and mother's mature milk are rich in antibodies, providing the baby the benefit of being immune for about 6 months of age.

Source:

What to Expect -- The First Year by Markoff
Healthpromo.doh.gov.ph

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