Benefits of
Breastfeeding

Benefits of Breastfeeding

Benefits for babies:

1. Breastfed babies are healthier
2. In the first few days after birth, your body produces a colostrum: it is an easily digestible liquid and is full of disease-fighting antibodies called immunoglobulins that strengthen your baby’s immune system.
3. Enhances brain development: there are specific ingredients in breastmilk which have been proven to be beneficial for brain and sight development.
4. Benefits on your child’s development:
   Research shows that breastfeeding has a lifelong impact on your child’s health and development:

• Helps the immune system mature Reduces gastrointestinal illness by up to 82% and respiratory illness by up to 30%
• Protects against chronic diseases
• Lowers the risk of developing allergic disease
• Lowers the risk/delays of early onset obesity by up to 35% & diabetes by up to 40%
• Reduces the risk of ear infections by up to 300% , lymphoma by up to 800% and - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) by up to 500 %.