𝑰 𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈…
𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉 & 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.
You are the tree of life
for your baby.
𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉.
𝑺𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕;
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 be 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕.
Without further do,
Allow me to expose 3 areas that benefits your baby from exclusive breastfeeding.
First we’ll dive into Respiratory, then Gastrointestinal & lastly, prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Let’s talk!
Benefits on Respiratory Health
Infections In Infants
I am sure you heard the rumor of ear infections that occur in infants.
Aside from teething; constant fussiness, fever and difficulty sleeping are cues of possible ear infections.
Well, exclusive breastfeeding reduces the chances of your infant developing ear & throat infections by 63%.
This includes other upper respiratory infections like pneumonia, IF you maintain exclusive breastfeeding for more than 6 months.
Take note mamas,
Your baby is vulnerable to bacteria and viruses that you can increase protection from, with your antibodies by way of breastfeeding.
This can save you countless doctor visits and calling out from work, due to a sick baby. Let’s not even go into a conversation about funds for medications.
So, be bold with your liquid gold when it comes to breastfeeding exclusively!
Benefits on Gastrointestinal Health
Have you ever wondered, why does a baby spit up a large number when formula fed compared to breastfed?
Well, formula milk is not timely digested as breast-milk for the immature intestines of an infant.
My adorable nephew in the top left picture, trying to sit up own his own, would spit up a lot. Leaving my sister full of questions on why he spits up so much when she bottle fed him.
I can hear her frustration now when she speaks about it.
This is why exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months is strongly recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Exclusive breastfeeding; is breastfeeding without any formula, solids, or outside nutrients.
So, in knowledge of this,
Be inspired to breastfeed not just 6 months, but past 1 year to prevent later issues that can arise.
Isn’t that a good 12 months of savings of baby food?
Did you know?
Colostrum builds your baby gut!
Understand that your colostrum is a thick rich, liquid gold content from your breast.
As it is ingested by your infant it transfers immunoglobins aka antibodies.
Those antibodies produce a thick coating that covers a baby’s intestines & stomach. An infant GI system is not fully developed into tight connections yet, so gap spaces are present.
However,
Your breast milk assist in development of tight connections, coating your infants intestines and stomach, while providing antibodies.
So to reiterate,
Colostrum carries antibodies that produce a thick coat to cover the intestines & stomach.
Colostrum coats your baby intestines
Mamma, your milk is developing your baby body from the inside out!
Another thing to note is that your colostrum also helps produce healthy poops!
Healthy breastfed poops smell sweet, look seedy and yellow- mustard.
Yep! Colostrum serves as an laxative for newborns, so don’t be surprise when you’re changing diapers 5 to 8 times daily.
Talk about a good cleansing! lol
Exclusive Breastfeeding Is Necessary!
Lastly, there’s a non digestible sugar called oligosaccharide within your breast milk, it’s ingested by your infant to produce prebiotics! Those pre-biotics help bind bacteria and fights off viruses.
Can you say a-ma-zing!
Haha, yes, you are!
Choose to exclusively breastfeed for a minimum of 6 months, at most 1 year. You are sure to decrease the risk of your baby suffering from GI issues like; chron’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome up to 64%.
Especially a 77% decrease of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Briefly,
(NEC) is a disease that disrupts the tight connections that seal the intestines of an infants’ stomach.
This makes an infant vulnerable for bacteria to damage the intestinal lining. A whole lot if issues that is painful to an infant.
Additionally,
Exclusive breastfeeding decreases the chances of your baby developing, type 1 diabetes and lean toward a greater outcome in higher intelligence.
Fun Fact!
(When you wing your infant from breast feeding, your baby GI remains protected up to 2 months post ceasing of breastfeeding)
There is power in your breast milk!
Finally, I want to expose how exclusive breastfeeding prevent SIDS.
Benefits On SIDS Prevention
The mortality rates among infants who were never breastfed sums up to 21% of infant deaths.
Which means,
Within the U.S. 900 infants lives per year, may be saved if 90% of mothers exclusively breastfed for 6 months.
Further,
Zooming on SIDS rates & positions of a baby sleeping on its’ back, exclusive breastfeeding is proven to decrease SIDS rates.
Lastly,
It’s also noted that while your infant is sleeping, placing a pacifier in your infants’ mouths reduces the risk of SIDS as well.
Yet, the contradiction concerns falls under the risk of ear infections. Lately, studies have shown that infants usage in pacifiers have higher experiences with ear infections.
If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
In the end the choice of an infection beats the risk of SIDS.
BUT! In exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months up to 1 year you cover both concerns.
Hey now, I think it’s more than safe to say that popping out your breast here and there to feed your infant is well worth it.
In full knowledge of all the things it prevents your baby from getting, and the benefits it grants you too.
So what are you contemplating on?
Pop it out and let mother nature take hold of your bundle of joy!
Be bold with your liquid gold and do it with class!
