Have you ever been troubled on how best to nurse your child? Perhaps it has never been easy trying to find out what to do when it comes to feeding your baby. May be you would really like to try breastfeeding but fear that it won't mix well with working, or with sleeping, or with romance will caught you up.
May be I should try bottle feeding you gasped. That seems like a dead end because you have heard so much about breastfeeding that you can't see yourself bottle-feeding either.
Whatever that is causing your indecision or your ambivalence about the right baby feeding method; the best way to bring that fuzzy picture into focus is to explore the facts, as well as your feelings. First of all what are the facts? Find out:
No matter how far technology advances, there will always be some things that nature does better. Among them, formulate the best food and best food delivery systems for babies; a system that is at the same time good for mothers.
As Oliver Wendell Holmes senior said well over a century ago, "A pair of substantial mammary glands has the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor’s brain in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for infants."
You may not necessary understand what he meant; He is trying to explain that breastfeeding a child have some positive effect on a human brain.
Today pediatrics, obstetricians, midwives, even manufacturers of infant formula agrees with this. Under most circumstances, breast is best by far. Here are just some of the reasons why:
Breast Feeding is more Safer.
You can be sure that the milk served up from your breasts isn’t improperly prepared, spoiled or contaminated (though assuming that you don’t have illness that would make breastfeeding unsafe for baby; few illnesses do actually).
Formula can easily be contaminated which makes your child prone to diseases. Check the packet of the formula and see if it have expired before buying one for your child.
Human Breast Contains Enough Ingredients that Changes with the Babies Need.
Prior to the needs of human infants, breast milk contains at least 1000 ingredients that are not present in cow’s milk and that cannot be synthesized in the laboratory. Moreover, unlike formula, the composition of breast milk changes to meet a baby’s ever changing needs.
It’s different in the morning than it is in the late afternoon; different at the beginning of a feeding than at the end; different the first month than the seventh; different for premature baby than for a term baby. The nutrients in breasts are matches to an infant’s needs and his or her ability to handle them.
For example, breast milk contains less sodium than cow’s milk formula, making it easier for a baby’s kidney to handle.
Breast Feeding Increases a Child IQ (Boosts the Brain).
Breast feeding increases a child's IQ at least through the age fifteen into adult hood. The human breast milk contains brain-building fatty acids (DHA), including the closeness and mother-baby interaction that is built into breast feeding which possibly fosters intellectual development.
Breastfeeding a Child Prevents Infection.
When a baby suckles their mother's breast, they get a healthy dose of antibodies. Antibodies immune a child's body against disease or infection. In general they will come down with fewer colds, asthma, ear infections, urinary tract infections and other sickness than their bottle-fed counterpart.
Even when they do fall ill they will usually recover more quickly with fewer or no complications. To be more precise, bottle feed infants are more likely to fall ill than breast feed infants.
Breast Milk Concurs with a Child Digestive System.
Breast Milk reduces the risk of digestive upset in infants both by destroying harmful micro organisms and by encouraging the growth of beneficial of ones. Breast feed infants are rarely victims of diarrhea than their bottle-fed counterpart.
Breast Gives a Child a More Sucking Satisfaction.
A baby can continue sucking at a nearly empty breast once a feeding is over. This usually occurs when the baby is distressed and need to be calmed down. An empty feeding bottle does not allow for continued sucking.
Breast feeding a Child will go a long way to benefit the child. The mother also have some health benefits just by breast feeding her baby. I believe that you got a tip from here. Please tell me what you think of this article via the comment box.
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Without reading this article, I know that there must be something breast feeding does to a child... With this post I have got more reasons why a mother need to breast feed, thanks for sharing.
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