MM Breastfeeding
The good news about the benefits that breastfeeding brings to both you and your baby just keeps on coming. Here’s MM’s guide to everything you need to know about feeding your baby the natural way…
Breast- feeding
for modern mums!
The amazing benefits breastfeeding can bring to both mum and baby are well known throughout Ireland. In fact, while the rate of breastfeeding here is low by international standards, it has increased by almost ten per cent over the last ten years. Over the last year, even more research
studies have pointed to the benefits that breastfeeding can bring. In the last six months alone, US
researchers have found that breastfeeding may help reduce mum’s risk of type 2 diabetes after gestational diabetes, and that it may protect babies, who gain weight rapidly, against being overweight. In a new study, babies who gained weight rapidly in the first four months of life were significantly more likely to be classified as overweight by one year of age if they were exclusively formula fed rather than breastfed for eleven months or longer. Last year, research from the University of
Ottawa in Canada also discovered that breastfeeding reduces the pain babies feel when they receive vaccinations. Researchers found that feeding infants
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while they are being given a jab reduces crying time by an average of 38 seconds. While babies, who were breastfed cried for between fourteen seconds and two minutes when injected, those who were not breastfed cried for between 35 seconds and nearly three minutes. Researchers - who looked at six studies
involving 547 babies up to the age of twelve months - concluded that breastfeeding was better at reducing pain than feeding the baby water or a sweet sugar solution, or expressed breast milk.
Advantages of
breastfeeding The advantages of breastfeeding are now well known and universally recognised. By breastfeeding your baby you will:
• Have a healthier baby - research has shown that the incidence of colds, viruses and even pneumonia are reduced in babies who are breastfed!
• Give him long-term protection - by breastfeeding your baby, you reduce his risk of developing chronic conditions,
such as Type I diabetes, coeliac disease and Crohn’s disease.
• Have an ever-ready, custom-made supply - breast milk is higher in protein and lower in sugar than 'full' milk, so even a small amount can keep your baby filling satisfied for longer.
• Lower your baby's SIDS risk - various studies have shown that breastfeeding lowers your baby’s risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) by about half. It's mainly thought that breastfeeding reduces the chances of SIDS because it protects infants against minor infections that have also been shown to make sudden death more likely.
• Increase your baby's response to vaccines - research has shown that breastfed babies have a better antibody response to vaccines than formula-fed babies.
Put simply, by giving your baby nothing but breast milk for the first six months (26 weeks) of his life, you'll give him the best start in life and he'll reap the benefits for years to come!
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