Breast Feeding Babies

jaschmidt | Feb 22, 2010 |

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Breast feeding babies should be the only option as it is nature's gift. People vacillated in their choices throughout the past century all in the name of convenience. Most likely pharmaceutical companies' marketing strategy had convinced a few generations to formula bottle feed instead of breast feeding babies. Many present day mothers are ignorant because their mothers did not breast feed them.

Substantial data on breast feeding babies throughout the years affirms its many benefits to babies' and mothers' health. There are nutrients found exclusively in breast milk and fully breast fed babies tend to have better immune systems and are less allergic prone. Breast feeding babies helps moms lose the pounds gained during pregnancy. Breast feeding babies longer than six 6 months is a natural birth control for spacing pregnancies (at least every two or three years). Wonderful moments of bonding occur between the infant and mother as baby suckles in the comfort, loving care and security of mother's bosom.

Sometime in the early 80s many hospitals in the West allowed babies to be with their mothers in the hospital room to make it easier for mothers who are breast feeding their babies. In some Asian hospitals, 'rooming in' has caught up by the turn of the century. Certainly, pediatricians would advise breast feeding babies more often than not. The online resource center sponsored by the Harvard Medical School quotes in an article to The American Academy of Pediatrics as recommending babies be breast fed at least until six months exclusively with no other solids or juice introduced and breast feeding should continue until the baby is one year.

Breast feeding babies is safe, convenient, and inexpensive. The milk is always available anytime and anywhere. There is no need to lug around bottles, warmers, formula and sterilizer and buy formulas. Milk is always the right temperature and the ideal milk for every stage of growth of the infant.

Pre-natal classes would usually have a session on preparing mothers-to-be for breast feeding. At the hospital, supportive expertise and helpful advice from experienced hospital staff would ease new mothers into the initial experience of naturally breast feeding babies. The correct way is when the baby properly latches on to the right part of the breast. With practice and determination it becomes easier as the days go by. Before the delivery and through out breast feeding, it is good to apply vitamin E (the liquid in any Vitamin E capsule) on to the breast and the nipples to help keep it supple and prevent cracking of the skin.

The latest edition of "The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding" published by the La Leche League International is packed with more research, useful facts and advice on breast feeding babies for the modern mom. Sore nipples? You have twins? Moms and moms to be can access LLL on line for real heart warming responses from mothers who have done it all.