Overview
Breast milk is the best to feed your baby in the first 6 months. Make sure that you do not involve any meal within the first 6months to enable your young one have the best and boost the immunity. A child need breast milk to avoid complications and also grow fast and in a healthy way. Introduce other food during the 7th month in small portions and should be inclusive of soup to allow easy swallowing. Exclusive breast feeding is also helpful to the mother since it prevents breast cancer and helps reduce both berry fat and excess weight.
The following are exclusive reasons to breastfeed
• Satisfies baby’s emotional needs
During breastfeeding you have to hold the baby so close to your stomach and chest. This is one way to give him/her a sense of belonging and comfort, that’s the reason you find that they easily sleep on their mothers lap. A study shows that …show more content…
To ensure that you are not at any risk of breast cancer you need to breast feed exclusively.
• Formula feeding increases baby girls risk of developing breast cancer
Make sure that you do not risk your baby girl’s health to breast cancer. You already know that milk has great advantages and if you cannot afford to breastfeed full day, make sure that you extract milk before you leave. Add food supplements i.e. high fiber diet to boost the immunity.
• Breast milk is more digestible than formula
As your pregnancy increase week by week, the breast also prepare milk as time goes by. This makes the breast milk as the most digestible food for a young baby. The baby stomach has to stay for long period before it can handle any type of food. Make sure that he/she breastfeeds until they are leave the breast for themselves.
• Decrease insulin requirements for breastfeeding