- Breast milk is alive food and changes its composition as per baby’s requirements.
- Skin to skin with the baby boosts the milk supply of the mother.
- Women who have breastfed have significantly lower prevalence of osteoporosis than women who haven’t.
- Breastfeeding leads to decreased risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers in the mother.
- Early initiation of breastfeeding predicts short-term and long-term breastfeeding success.
- Exclusive breastfeeding provides protection against childhood obesity and type-I and II diabetes in children when they grow up.
- The risk of ear infections is doubled in case of artificially fed babies as opposed to exclusively breastfed babies.
- Breastfeeding has no benefits. It is a biological norm. Deviating from the norm – not breastfeeding – has risks.
- Baby is not getting enough does not necessarily mean that the mother is not making enough. There are many other factors like a poor latch, switching sides often, ties, reflux and many others.
- Studies have shown that exclusively and directly breastfed children have better teeth and jaw alignment.