Look at the bigger picture when deciding whether to give your baby breast milk or formula. Your breastfed baby also has less risk of becoming obese, and his lifelong chances of getting type 1 and 2 diabetes, 22,23 and certain cancers 24,25 will be lower.
Read more about breastfeeding benefits for babies. Breastfeeding also burns up to calories a day, 26 which may help you lose weight more quickly after the birth. And the longer you breastfeed, the lower your own risk of developing breast, 27 uterine 28 and ovarian cancers, 29 heart disease, 30 and type 2 diabetes.
Breastfeeding is usually easier on your purse. In addition, the foods you eat flavour your milk so your baby experiences new tastes at every feed, and may enjoy a wider variety of foods when you start introducing solids. Finally, have you considered the environmental benefits of breast milk? With no intensive farming, factory emissions, transportation or packaging involved, breastfeeding is better for the planet as well as for you and your baby. Contribution of inappropriate complementary foods to the salt intake of 8-month-old infants.
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Clin Transl Immunology. JAMA Pediatr. Human milk oligosaccharides: every baby needs a sugar mama. Eat a healthy diet, drink plenty of fluids and rest as much as possible. To boost your confidence, learn as much as you can about breast-feeding. Keep the environment calm and relaxed. Look to your partner and other loved ones for support.
Don't be afraid to ask for help. Friends who've successfully breast-fed might be a good source of information. Lactation consultants are available at many hospitals and clinics. Your or your baby's health care provider might be able to help, too. If your baby has trouble latching on to the breast or if you and your family have a preference for bottle-feeding, you can exclusively bottle-feed your baby breast milk.
Pump as often as you would feed your baby from the breast. Using a double electric breast pump can help you collect more milk in less time. If you're having trouble making enough milk or if you can't give your baby your breast milk for a medical reason, you can turn to a human milk bank and feed your baby pasteurized donor milk from a bottle.
If you're struggling, ask a lactation consultant or your baby's doctor for help. If your baby's doctor is concerned that your baby isn't receiving adequate nutrition or hydration, he or she might suggest pumping and supplementing with expressed breast milk or formula.
Breast milk is the ideal food for babies — and the best way to keep a baby healthy — but proper nutrition and hydration are absolutely essential for your baby. Commercial infant formulas don't contain the immunity-boosting elements of breast milk that only your body can provide to your baby. For most babies, breast milk is also easier to digest than formula.
When prepared as directed, however, infant formula supports healthy babies who have typical dietary needs. A baby who has special nutritional needs might require a special formula. Exclusive breast-feeding is recommended for the first six months after birth.
A diet of only breast milk provides the best nutrition. Formula supplementation can disrupt breast-feeding as well as affect milk supply.
And in today's NHS, whatever the operation or treatment or care-plan under consideration, nothing is more sacrosanct than informed choice. But where possible, the rule applies.
Women deserve every scrap of information about the many advantages of breastfeeding, and round-the-clock support if they choose to go for it. But we should not withhold - or vilify - the alternative. Breastfeeding can be really hard, particularly in the emotional weeks following a birth. Evidence shows that help from anyone with time, knowledge and empathy can encourage women to persevere. For instance, if shown to express squeeze milk from one or both breasts, they may remain self-sufficient.
But sometimes this is physically impossible: babies can take time to latch properly, leaving mums with raw, bleeding nipples. Other women have limited milk supply.
Equally, mastitis - an inflammatory breast infection - affects one in 10 breastfeeding women. Good care can help a mum get back to suckling, but sometimes she doesn't want to. And if she's weighed up the pros and cons to reach the right decision for her, why make her feel bad?
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