Breast Milk is Best

When is comes to feeding your baby, breast milk can’t be beat!

Here are just some of its benefits:

• Colostrum, the first milk your body produces after delivery, offers increased resistance to infection and helps guard against respiratory and intestinal bacteria and viruses in babies.

• Human milk contains the right amount of nutrients, in the right proportions for the growing baby. Mother’s own milk changes during a feeding from thirst-quenching to hunger-satisfying. Its composition changes as the baby grows to meet baby’s changing nutritional needs.

• Children who are not breastfed are at a greater risk of obesity as adults.

• More and more research is showing that breastfeeding leads to optimal brain development. Breast milk contains special ingredients like DHA and AA which contribute to brain and retinal development.

• Breastfeed babies spend more time in the “quiet alert” state which is most conducive to learning.

• Breastfeeding contributes to optimal oral development and a lesser risk of malocclusion, teeth that are not aligned properly. Bottle fed babies also have a greater risk of tooth decay.

• The skin-to-skin contact with your baby created when breastfeeding helps emotional attachment and provides optimal nurturing.