Why Breastfeeding is important for both you and your baby?

Why Breastfeeding is important for both you and your baby? - Some women decide not to breastfeed their babies because they hear things that are not true. The following are important facts about breastfeeding that can free you from the influence of these myths:

1. It's easier for women who breastfeed to lose weight after childbirth because their bodies use so much energy to produce milk. Women who breastfeed for 6 months to remove all the weight gained during pregnancy.

2. Almost all women can breastfeed, regardless of the size of their breasts. Even women with inverted nipples (inverted) was able to breastfeed her baby.

3. Women who had undergone cesarean can still breastfeeding comfortable with using a different position.

4. There is no need to control what you eat.

5. Breastfeeding will not ruin the shape of the breast. More pregnancy affects breast shape compared to breastfeeding. Women should wear a "support" bra as soon as possible when the breasts begin to grow during pregnancy. This will help avoid stretching that affect breast shape.

6. Most women with health problems can still breastfeed. However, women who have tested positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, should not breastfeed, because the baby can become infected through breast milk.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding in the first month of life enama submarines. And there are many reasons why breastfeeding is best for your baby:

- Breastfeeding helps maintain the health of babies. Breastfeeding protects infants from several types of illnesses such as colds, flu, diarrhea, and ear infections.

- Milk is readily available every day or every night, whenever your baby is hungry. Always at the right temperature.

- Easy for your baby to digest breast milk, because milk for your baby is actually created by the human body as well

- Breast milk is naturally clean. Out of breast milk into baby's mouth and will not change the quality or damaged.

- Breastfeeding helps prevent diaper rash

- Babies who are breastfed are less likely to be overweight later in life. They learn to stop eating when full, not when the bottle is empty.

- Babies who are fully breastfed for six months or more, proved to be more clever, when given IQ tests at school age compared with infants given formula.