Various benefits of breast-feeding

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Various benefits of breast-feeding

Are you a new mum?
If yes, what food do you feed your newborn?

Breast milk is the perfect food for a human baby. Aside from promoting maternal-infant bonding, breast milk offers many other advantages.. Let's see what are they ?

Nutrients

Provides nutrients, hormones, and proteins that are essential for growth, brain development and digestion. Lower risk of infections

Breast milk can reduce the risk of infection of diarrhea , influenza, middle ear ,respiratory , including respiratory syncytial virus (bronchiolitis) and asthma .

Human milk also assist a baby's own immune system work best. If your breast-feeding baby become ill, the infection is likely to be less severe.

Easily digested

Human milk is the most easily digested food your baby can receive. It straight from the breast is always sterile never contaminated by polluted water or dirty bottles, which can also lead to diarrhea in the infant . Because of your baby breaks your milk down more completely into its basic ingredients, so the nutrients, anti-infective factors, and all the other elements in your milk are more available to fuel your baby's body functions and to boost your baby's growth and development. Bio-availability

Bio-availability make us know how well the body can use the nutrients in a food. If there are high bio-availability of nutrients in your breast milk , your baby can recieves more benefits from the nutrients it contains - even for nutrients that appear in lower levels in breast milk when compared to artificial formulas . It also means your infant saves the energy that would be needed to eliminate any nutrients he /she had difficulty digesting or using.

Higher oxygenation and temperature.

Breast-fed babies maintain higher levels of oxygenation and warmer body temperature while feeding than do bottle-fed infants. The baby is in control of the flow of milk when breast-feeding so he does not have to struggle to keep his airway open, as might happen when milk flows freely from a bottle and fills up the mouth. Easier breathing means more oxygen gets into the blood, which enhances development. When you breast-feed, your baby is next to or on your warm body, helping him to stay warm. This is especially important in the early time of the baby's life when he has difficulty maintaining his temperature.

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