Breastfeeding impacts both Mom and Baby in Awesome Ways!
Benefits for Mom
- It helps your uterus to contract after birth so that you don't bleed too much after birth.
- It helps your uterus to continue to shrink down to pre-birth size.
- It increases your positive emotions as the oxytocin hormone is stimulated. This prevents post-partum depression.
- It stimulates the prolactin hormone which helps you go to sleep after feeding.
- It has statistically been found to decrease the chances of your having ovarian cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and alzheimers.
- Keeps baby more healthy, so mom misses less days at work due to infant illness, if she is working outside the home.
- Costs less
- Is easier to travel breastfeeding a baby compared to bottle feeding a baby.
- Protects the environment: no packaging, no plastics, no waste.
- Promotes bonding
Benefits for Baby
- It feeds them! Every baby needs food!
- It profoundly boosts their immune system {We could talk about that for days and days and days. Its complex, its profound, and it changes baby's life! }
- Feeding at the breast creates a feedback system so that specific immunity boosters go to your baby as he/she needs them.
- Breastfed babies have significantly less diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections.
- The occurrence of serious childhood illnesses like asthma, type I diabetes, leukemia, and allergies is decreased.