Breastfeeding is a natural and normal way to feed an infant and is critical for child health, survival, nutrition and development, maternal health and rather it should be referred to as the “Gold Standard” feeding. It protects the child health and development by reducing the infections like diarrhoea, Pneumonia, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, allergies’, obesity and cancers. It protects maternal health by reducing postpartum bleeding (causing anaemia and sometimes death), contraception, lowers the risk of breast and ovarian cancers, diabetes mellitus, obesity, osteoporosis etc. Globally breastfeeding reduces the disease burden and saves the lives of the infants and it also reduces the disease burden of the mothers who breastfeed. Read more…
