Breast feeding provides many real advantages your baby would otherwise not get. Here are some:
- Breast milk provides the best nutrition for your baby. It contains all the nutrients in the right proportion and its composition changes with the needs of your growing baby.
- With breast milk, especially colostrums, your baby’s immunity is strengthened. This means excellent protection against infections like diarrhea, colds, bronchitis and pneumonia.
- Breast milk also prevents various allergic disorders like asthma, eczema and infantile colic.
- Breast milk contains certain nutrients which are critical for brain development.
- It reduces the chances of contamination which can occur in other forms of feeding.
- Your milk is easily available at any time, unlike other milk. So there is no inconvenience of preparation or heating as it is always at the right temperature too.
- Provides comfort and emotional security for your baby.
- Enables mother and baby to interact more fully than other forms of feeding, resulting in a closer bond.
