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It protects the baby from disease and creates a good bond for the mother and child. It is the best food that the mother can give your newborn child. Each year that passes, Medicine accumulates more evidence that breastfeeding is highly beneficial for the baby, mother and society as a whole.

Benefits for baby
It contains everything the baby needs during the first months of life. Breast milk protects the baby against diarrhea, colds, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, otitis, meningitis, urinary infections, or necrotizing enterocolitis syndrome sudden infant death, to name a few. But the effects are only short term. Breastfeeding also protects the baby from diseases in adulthood, such as asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and even cardiovascular disease and several cancers. Also, studies have shown that breastfeeding promotes the intellectual and emotional development.

Benefits for mother
Women who breast feed their children quickly lose the weight gained during pregnancy and have a lower risk of developing anemia, hypertension and depression after the birth. New studies have also shown that osteoporosis and cancers of the breast and ovary are less frequent in women who have breastfed their children.

Breastfeeding is ecological
As you do not need processing, packaging and transport breast milk is a food “organic”, which helps save energy and avoid polluting manufacturing processes to the environment. It also means savings for the family can avoid an estimated cost of between 800 and 1000 euros per year per child. Savings will be extended to society, because children breastfed by his mother cause less costs to public health (including less loss of parental absenteeism from work).

Recommended during the first 6 months
All these reasons have led the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommends exclusive breast feeding during the first 6 months of a child’s life and continue breastfeeding together with adequate complementary feeding up to 2 years of age or older.

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