Breast Feeding

Breast milk is a natural product, easy to digest, and contains all the ingredients that your baby needs to grow and develop. It is ingenious also, adapting to the baby’s changing needs, day by day, providing the perfect nutritional mix.

Breast milk also protects: the milk comes directly from your body, and is untouched by human hands – so potential bacterial infection is greatly reduced. Antibodies transferred by the mother, through the milk, provide further protection. There is less chance of your baby developing gastroenteritis, chest infections and diabetes.

If breast-feeding does not work for you – don’t worry. Formula milk is an ideal alternative.

Breast milk also provides benefits to parents: it’s a go-anywhere food, it’s cheap, and it’s less hassle, since you don’t have to sterilise any bottles. It also aids a mother’s return to her natural shape: the hormones produced help the womb revert to its normal size more rapidly, and excess fat – especially in the thighs – is used up to produce the breast milk.

If breast-feeding does not work for you – don’t worry. Formula milk is an ideal alternative and using it does not mean you are any less of a mother. Do what makes both you and your baby relaxed and happy.

For more information on breastfeeding and other feeding techniques, please visit Eumom Feeding Tips.