Breastmilk is like the best milk ever. Each drop of breast milk that you give to your baby contains the exact amount of fat, amount of immune system, and the exact amount of other nutrition you baby needs. Besides that, breast milk also has a lot of benefit. Here are some of the benefits
1. No Menstrual Cycle or Ovulation During Breastfeeding
The choice to breastfeed will effect your reproductive cycle. Nursing your baby can cause your body to stay in a state of amenorrhea longer after giving birth. This means that you have no menstrual cycles or ovulation, nice right?
2. Lower Risk for Osteoporosis
There is some evidence that nursing a baby lowers your risk for osteoporosis later in life. Your body takes calcium from your bone reserves during lactation - but once your baby begins solids and weans your body replaces the calcium at an increased rate. Studies also have shown that women who breastfed their children are at lower risk of hip fracture and other bone problems.
3. Saves You a Lot of Money
Breast feeding definitely will give you economic advantages for you as well. To give you a picture, using formula can cost anywhere between $1,160 and $3,915! Even if you receive assistance from the United State’s Women Infants and Children program (WIC), you will still have to pay for some of your baby’s formula. This is true with other nations’ assistance programs.
The cost savings of nursing your baby are also seen in your baby’s good health. You pay less in medical bills, prescription costs, and insurance co-pays because your baby stays healthier than she might if she were being fed artificial baby milk.
4. Less Stress
Nursing allows you to feed your baby while lying down. You can nap with your baby - and you should - and if you choose a family bed you can nurse your baby right in your bed at night. You don’t have to get up, and after the first few weeks you’ll hardly notice your baby waking at night. This results in a far more rested you, and a happy baby.
5. Other Natural Benefits
Your body and your baby expect to breastfeed. Nursing is a natural continuum moving from pregnancy and birth. By breastfeeding your baby, you have access to an instant mothering tool that will help you grow more confident in yourself and your mothering instincts. And you will have a happy baby!
So don’t quit breast feeding your baby, be patient and keep doing it until your baby is 6 months old!
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