Is Breastfeeding For You?

The health benefits that a baby gets from breastfeeding are crucial to a child's development. So the question remains, is breastfeeding for you? Mother's milk contains the most perfect optimal mixture of antibodies and nutrients that a child needs for their growing and developing bodies while enabling it to keep pace with the changing nutritional needs of the child. While formula has come a long way and very nutritional it has yet been able to duplicate or replace what mother's milk gives to the child.

Breastfeeding is natural, it is by far the most nutritional but breastfeeding is also a choice that only a mother can make. There can be many reasons for not choosing to breastfeed you baby, they can range from physically or medically unable to breastfeed to more personal reasons for choosing to not breastfeed. More and more employers are accepting the fact that newly returning to work mothers are needing to take a few minutes to pump milk while at work to save for later use, some even allowing a mother to breastfeed at work when needed. Employers are working with both mothers and fathers so they can schedule their parenting duties around their work schedules. Is Breastfeeding For You? Make sure to check all of your options before you make the decision not to breastfeed.

Premature babies that are breastfeed in particular are finding it more beneficial for their development and overall health. In addition breastfeed babies that are critically ill have the best chance for survival and a healthier life. Breastfeeding is found to protect children against asthma, diabetes, allergies and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Breastfeeding affects every part of a growing babies body from brain development to body growth. Since babies seem to grow in kind of spurts around two weeks of age and six weeks of age and then again around three months of age and six months of age the proper and most beneficial nutrients are crucial for the baby.

For mothers that choose to breastfeed there are positives also, breastfeeding helps quicken the uterus to its normal size. Mothers that breastfeed for 6 months throughout their lifetime have a decreased risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer and uterine cancer. It is not true however that breastfeeding will prevent pregnancy. It is best to take other measures to ensure against pregnancy during breastfeeding and while not taking the pill.

Breastfeeding will be or is one of the most important decisions you will make for your baby. It is a very personal selfless act that is made by mother for her child. It is a bonding experience like none other and it is complete nurturing love. So... Is Breastfeeding For You? Breastfeeding is a choice; the first of many you will have to make for your child, if you can I hope you choose to breastfeed. Whatever you decide enjoy every moment, they go by far to quickly.