Breastfeeding Benefits Babies
posted in Post Partum |Besides growing up on a dairy farm and learning all the great benefits to milk and mother’s milk, I have also seen the benefits in my own children and I have found studies supporting my own findings. Mother’s milk is a natural meal for baby, whatever kind of mammal mother and baby are.
One study conducted on breast feeding found:
promoting prolonged breast feeding may help decrease the prevalence of obesity in childhood.
The conclusion also goes on to say:
Since obese children have a high risk of becoming obese adults, such preventive measures may eventually result in a reduction in the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and other diseases related to obesity.
Now I don’t know about the entire world, but in the United States, obesity is a growing problem. Diets are filled with convenience foods and/or stuff loaded with various forms of MSG, and days filled with sitting in front of computers or wanting to sit down from the tiring stress caused by growing bodies. It seems to me that breastfeeding our babies, is a simple enough task since it offers them early preventative protection against future obesity and all that entails.
Breastfeeding benefits babies, so why wouldn’t we want that? If you can do it, I strongly urge you to, for your baby’s future health.
Sheilah 
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