Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Breast-feed your Baby to Reap Benefits

Breast-feeding in Public Places is Becoming Common

Along with the newborn comes ample responsibilities and tasks for the new parents. The first and foremost focus of these parents should be to provide the best possible nutrition care for their children to raise healthy and happy kids.

Exclusive breast-feeding is recommended for the first six months for the best nutrition and health of the infant. From the sixth to the twelfth month, breast-feeding along with complementary foods is suggested. Parents should take utmost care while introducing complementary foods, making the child eat only one new food at a time. For healthy and nutritious complementary foods, please visit the website www.firsteatright.com.
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When breast-fed, the baby experiences reduction in:

• Ear infections
• Respiratory illnesses
• Sudden infant death syndrome
• Obesity and hypertension
  
  

When the mom breastfeeds, she enjoys the benefits of:
 

• Weight loss after delivery
• Reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancers

 
Breast-feeding is not possible in the case of every mom and baby. But, mom–child duos who are compatible with breast-feeding can reap its benefits while the rest can meet a physician or registered dietitian nutritionist and discuss the possibilities of breast-feeding.