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Advantages of
Breast Milk
Nature has intended to
strengthen the bond of mom and child by making
mother’s milk a necessity for the baby.
Digestive system in a newborn baby is so
delicate that it can only digest breast milk
easily. Baby develops in the mother’s body and
thus, the chemical constitution of the breast
milk suits the baby more than anything else.
Hence, every baby has a right over mother’s milk
for the first six to seven months of his life.
In the beginning, cow or buffalo’s milk can put
unnecessary stress on the baby’s digestive
system though gradually, baby develops the
ability to digest them too.
Judging by the course of nature, the pregnancy
period of nine months, the pain during the
delivery, the draining of blood during and after
the delivery, together put much stress on mom’s
body while nursing is much easier for a mom.
Experts have proven that Nature prepares every
living being for its life stages well and
supplements him with extra endowments to go
through each stage. If we follow the natural
course, we will be the safest. In teenaged
girls, menstrual cycle starts at the specific
time and stops at the appropriate time too. This
cycle does not have any negative effect on their
health whereas if we are injured and start
bleeding as much, we will feel quite tired and
weak.
Similarly, any protrusion such as tumors or
swellings may hurt us while development of
breasts in a teenaged girl indicated normal
development in her. Any delays in both these
processes become a cause for worry and are not
good for a girl’s health. As soon as a baby
takes birth, mother’s breasts are stimulated
enough to produce milk to feed the baby and
thus, we should not deprive our children of this
precious gift of the Nature to the little ones.
As soon as a woman enters the youth, the
hormones called estrogen and progesterone
prepare her body for producing milk for the baby
and breasts develop accordingly. After the
delivery, breasts produce enough milk to feed
the baby.
Not only do breasts produce milk but also they
also efficiently drip to satisfy baby’s hunger.
If this milk does not drip properly or is not
fed on by the bay, it pains a lot until the milk
is pumped out and may even result in excessive
hurtful experience and disease. There are cases
when both these hormones are not produced
properly and thus, not only the moms have to
face the problems, babies are also deprived of
proper nutrition. Mother’s milk has many
additional nutrients that are not present in
cattle-produced milk such as lactones (produced
from glucose in blood) and proteins (produced
from amino acids). In mother’s milk, all the
nutrients are present in balanced form,
appropriate for baby’s diet.
With the advancing age of the child, the baby
needs more nutrition and more nutrients that the
baby can get only from the mother’s milk and not
from the cattle’s milk or infant formulas. Many
moms are not capable of producing the milk and
hence, are helpless but there are many others
who risk baby’s health for their vanity and
deprive their children of one of the most
precious gifts of Nature. Moms who do not nurse
their babies are at higher risk for breast
cancers and other breast-related diseases. If
milk production gets stopped naturally, then it
is a different thing but if breasts produce milk
and is not fed to the baby, then it creates a
problem for the moms. Thus, one should not
hesitate to feed the baby for first six to seven
months to ensure better health for the mom and
baby alike.
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