12 reasons to breast feed
- The best possible start in life for your child, providing protection against infections and disease – even if you only manage a couple of days it will boost your babies immunities
- It will protect you, the mum, from diseases such as ovarian and breast cancer, plus prevent you from having weak bones in later life
- It helps your uterus to contract more quickly after birth.
- You lose the baby weight faster (breastfeeding can burn up to 500 calories a day!)
- It’s cheaper!
- It’s far less hassle. There’s no need for sterilising, boiling and cooling water, measuring out milk powder, and you can travel around without the extra baggage of bottles (6 a day in the early weeks).
- It helps you bond with your baby, and can give you some very calm and precious moments with them.
- Environmentally friendly – no waste, no packaging, no energy used (apart from yours) in the making of the milk.
- Baby won’t overfeed – they just take what they need. So that’s one less thing to worry about then.
- Breasts are like thermometers: when it’s hot, they automatically produce more thirst quenching milk for your baby. Another thing not to worry about.
- If you express milk, you can have the best of both: freedom of the bottle and the benefits of breast milk.
- Breast feeding is the most natural thing in the world for a baby. Why give them cow’s milk (as formula) when they can have human milk from mum?
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