Did you know :

1. Breastfeeding improves your cleavage.
2. Breastfeeding encourages bonding (it’s an incredibly warm, comforting feeling for both of you).
3. Breastmilk provides nutrients not found anywhere else.
4. Breastmilk staves off allergic reactions and potentially lifelong allergies and asthma.
5. Breastmilk protects your baby and makes him less likely to get sick; formula-fed babies see the doctor almost twice as often as breastfed babies.
6. Breastfeeding dramatically lowers rates of serious illness. Breastfed babies are four times less likely to be hospitalized for bacterial infections; less likely to suffer from SIDS, cancer, dermatitis, ear infections, diarrhea, diabetes, liver diseases, and other afflictions.
7. If you breastfeed, you’re less likely to have to stay home with a sick infant.
8. Breastmilk is cheaper than formula.
9. Breastmilk is easier to prepare and digest than formula.
10. Breastmilk is always the right temperature.
11. Breastmilk is always clean.
12. Breastmilk is free.
13. If you breastfeed, you don’t have to remember food every time you leave the house.
14. Breastfeeding makes traveling less of a hassle.
15. If you breastfeed, your pediatrician will commend you for it.
16. If you breastfeed, your baby will love you for it.
17. If you breastfeed, your husband will get used to it.
18. If you breastfeed, for the first time in your life, you’ll be a 42D (and it’ll certainly help with #17).
19. Breastfeeding may help your child avoid a weight problem later in life (research shows that formula-fed babies gain too much weight, while breastfed babies gain a normal amount).
20. Breastfeeding may help you avoid a weight problem later in life (helps you lose weight faster).
21. Breast pumps make it possible to give your baby breastmilk even when you’re not around.
22. If you breastfeed, you get to trade in sacky maternity clothes for shirts with button-down flaps.
23. Breastfeeding helps your uterus contract and return to its old shape faster.
24. Breastfeeding represents a style of parenting: right off the bat, you’re willing to adjust your life to your baby’s and give a lot of love. You might save your child a lot of time and money he’d have spent in therapy.
25. Studies show breastmilk is the perfect brain food during the first year of life and may increase your child’s I.Q. by as many as 5-10 points (think how smart you’d be if you’d been breastfed).
26. Breastfed babies are 40 percent less likely to have misaligned teeth (maybe you can forget saving for braces).
27. Breastfed babies have better eyesight.
28. Breastmilk is environmentally sound (and you don’t even have to recycle it!).
29. And the best reason to breastfeed? “Enzymatically hydrolyzed reduced minerals, whey protein concentrate, palm olefin, soy, coconut, high-oleic safflower oils, lactose, maltodextrin, potassium citrate, calcium phosphate, calcium chloride, salt, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride, ferrous sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide, soy lecithin, mono and diglycerides, inositol, choline bitartrate, sodium ascorbate, alpha tocopheryl acetate, niacinamide, calcium pantothenate, vitamin A acetate, riboflavin, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, phylloquinone, biotin, vitamin D3, vitamin B12, taurine, L-carnitine.”

That’s what’s in formula.

Tags: baby care tips, benefits of breastfeeding, breastfeeding, breastmilk, breastmilk vs artificial baby milk comparation

Posted on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 am filed under Baby, Health.