What Is Breastfeeding?

Breastfeeding is feeding a baby milk from the breast of the mother. You can feed your baby right in the chest. You can also get your milk and put the milk in a bottle to feed your baby. But pumping does not help to maintain your milk supply so much. Doctors recommend breastfeeding for a year or more. But your baby benefits in the amount of breast you can do.

Breast milk is the only food your baby needs until 6 months of age. No need to give your baby food, water or juice. After that, little by little chest less often than the baby starts eating other foods. However, continue breastfeeding as long as you and your child wants. Your baby continues to receive benefits of breast milk after the first year.

Breastfeeding reduces the risk of your child for many types of infections and allergies. Breast milk can also help protect your child against certain health problems such as eczema, obesity, asthma and diabetes.1

For comparison, a formula baby does not protect the baby from infections and other health problems.

You can recover from pregnancy, labor and delivery when the first breastfeed. It can also reduce the risk of breast cancer and osteoporosis in old age.