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Since the beginning of humankind, women have put their infants to breast extending the physical bond that began at conception. ... Whatever your attitudes, expectations and concerns about breast feeding, these may become powerful determinants in your ultimate success or failure to nurse your baby happily [2, page 2].
For most women who choose to breastfeed, the decision is one calling for the exercise of personal choice, medical judgment, and due considerations of breast feeding’s impact on the family and future. ...
Is Breast Feeding Really Better?
Do not let anyone fool you into believing that breast milk and formula are equally the same. ... The American academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be offered only breast milk for the first 4-6 months afterbirth and that breast feeding continue throughout the entire first year. ...
Practical Considerations
- It is difficult to believe that getting up at night to fix a bottle is more convenient than pulling the baby to the breast and dosing off again. ... Having a healthy baby is especially important to a working mother and breast fed babies are sick less after. ...
What’s in it for Mom
Brest feeding speeds the return of the uterus to its normal size, and immediate hormones released during breat feeding usually delay ovulation and menstruation for several months provided breast feeding is complete, successful and unrestricted. ... Mothers that work, who are hospitalized and have special physical problems often emphasize that breast feeding have significance to them because they are giving their babies something that no one else can give [3, page xxvii].
What is in it for the baby
- During the early days following birth, breast feeding provides the baby with the benefit of colostum (?) – a pre-milk substance secreted by the breast until milk is produced. ... Studies have shown that breast feeding is associated with a lower incidence of allergies than is formula feeding [4, page 5].
- Breast milk is clean because it is produced as it is consumed, so harmful bacteria can not contaminate it as it can with bottled milk.
- The baby’s jaw and teeth develops best when the baby is breast fed. Suckling at the breast appears to lower the incidence of faulty closure of the teeth (malocchesin (? ...
- Breast feeding markedly reduces the chance of infantile obesity. ...
- Feeding problems after the child is weaned are less common in breast fed babies than in bottle fed babies.
Approximate Word count = 1927
Approximate Pages = 7.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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