Great Reasons to Breastfeed Your Baby
Mother Nature Knows Best!
Breastmilk helps keep your baby healthy by:
- Supplying all of the necessary nutrition in the proper proportions
- Protecting against allergies, sickness and obesity
- Helping to prevent diseases like diabetes and cancer
- Preventing recurring infections, such as ear infections
- Providing an easily digested food source for baby with little or no constipation, diarrhea or upset stomach
- Promoting healthier weights as babies grow
- Promoting healthy brain development which may lead to higher IQ test scores
- Changing as your baby grows to provide just the right nutrients and amounts at the right time
Breastmilk is always ready and good for the environment:
- It's ready and available wherever and whenever your baby needs it without mixing.
- It's always at the right temperature, clean and free, no bottles to clean.
- Breastfeeding requires no handling or special packaging with virtually no waste.
Breastfeeding is great for mom too! Moms who breastfeed:
- May find it easier to return to the pre pregnancy weight.
- Save money, after all, it's free!
- Miss fewer work days caused by being home with a sick baby
- Enjoy more quality feeding time with baby
- Become more relaxed with the natural release of oxytocin caused by breastfeeding
- It's always at the right temperature, clean and free, no bottles to clean.
- Breastfeeding requires no handling or special packaging with virtually no waste