As a new mother, you always want the absolute best for your newborn baby. Experts say breastfeeding is one of the best things a mother can offer her growing newborn. Here I present to you three reasons a new mother should choose to breastfeed rather than formula feed. Breastfeeding is much better because, it offers many nutrients and protection, it offers many benefits to mother and baby and it is more cost effective.
The first reason why you should breastfeed is because it offers many nutrients and protection to the growing newborn. Breast milk is packed with so many more disease fighting substances than the average store bought formula. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends it to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of a baby’s life. Experts are also linking breast milk to higher brain growth in young babies. “Researchers at …show more content…
Breast are something every single woman in the world is born with small or big they are there. Breastfeeding is much more cost effective because breastfeeding is free compared to just the cost of formula feeding for the first year of life totals around $1,138.5 and $1,188.00 and could even be much more depending on the type of the formula the family has chosen to use. which could be an unnecessary expense for a family if they choose to breastfeed. “The AAP says each formula-fed infant costs the healthcare system between $331 and $475 more than a breastfed baby in its first year of life. The cost of treating respiratory viruses resulting from not breastfeeding is $225 million a year”. As I had stated previously breast milk has many disease fighting properties which entail a happy healthier baby. Having a healthier baby means a mother or father could spend less money on medical bills, missed work and medication cost. This money could then be put use to better the life of the family and