Free The Breastfeeding Mother's Guide by Eva North

Benefit of Breast Milk for…

     
    Breastfeeding is generally supported by the world’s health and scientific organizations as the most ideal method for nourishing infants.1–3 Years of exploration have revealed insight into the boundless cluster of benefits not just for baby additionally for moms and society.
     
    For mothers, breastfeeding helps with recovery from pregnancy and childbirth and provides lifelong health advantages.
     
    For children, breastfeeding supports optimal development and chronic illness and also protects against acute.
     
    For society, breastfeeding provides economy’s rank and environmental rewards.
     
     
    Breastfeeding Benefits for Mothers:
     
Reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Women who breastfeed reduce their risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. The reduction in cancer risk comes in proportion to the cumulative lifetime duration of breastfeeding. That is, the more months a woman has spent breastfeeding, the greater the beneficial effect. The reason is that estrogen levels are lower during lactation. It is thought that the less estrogen available to stimulate the lining of the uterus and perhaps breast tissue also, the less the risk of these tissues becoming cancerous.
     
Breastfeeding reduces osteoporosis. The breastfeeding women have a four times less chance of developing osteoporosis than Non-breastfeeding women.
     
Breastfeeding will reduce the risk of anemia by delaying the return of the menstrual cycle for 20 to 30 weeks.
     
Benefits child spacing. Since breastfeeding delays ovulation, the longer a mother breastfeeds the more she is able to practice natural child spacing, if she desires. How long a woman remains infertile depends on her baby’s nursing pattern and her own individual baby.
     
Mothers who breastfeed are more likely to return to their pre pregnancy weight than mothers who formula feed. Breastfeeding reduces the risk for long-term obesity. Breastfeeding mothers tend to have an earlier return to their pre-pregnant weight.
     
Breastfeeding also benefits mother's mind. Studies show that breastfeeding mothers show less postpartum anxiety and depression than do formula-feeding mothers moreover mothers will enjoy a quicker recovery after childbirth, with reduced risk of postpartum bleeding.
     
The most important thing about breastfeeding is the feelings of attachment between a mother and her child.
     
Breastfeeding offers benefit for children that cannot be duplicated by any other form feeding. The benefits of breastfeeding begin from the first moments after childbirth and last for many years after breastfeeding. Compared with formula-fed children, those who are breastfed are healthier and shorter illnesses when they do get sick and have fewer symptoms.
     

     
    Breastfeeding Benefits for children:
     
     
Breastfeeding strengthens the immune system. During nursing, the mother passes antibodies to the child, who help children resist diseases and help improve the normal immune response to certain vaccines.
     
Lower decrease in the probability of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
     
Another apparent benefit from breastfeeding is protection from infectious illnesses and their symptoms and allergies. (eg. Diarrhea and ear infections)
     
Lower risk of juvenile onset diabetes and inflammatory bowel diseases, suffer less often from some forms of cancer
     
Children who were breastfed have the higher IQ score than children who were formula fed.
     
Respiratory illness are significantly protected against asthma and eczema in mother milk fed children.
     
Significant evidence suggests that breast-fed children develop fewer psychological, behavioral and learning problems as they grow older. Studies also indicate that cognitive development is increased among children whose mothers choose to breastfeed.
     
    For premature infants, human milk:
    • Significantly shortens length of hospital stay
     
    • reduces hospital costs
     
    • hastens brainstem