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Benefits of breastfeeding for mothers

August 4, 2008

Undoubtedly breastfeeding is cheaper and easier than bottle feeding because there’s nothing to buy, measure, pour, heat or sterilize. Remember that your baby sucking is beneficial for you because it stimulated your uterus to contract and to return to its pre-pregnant size sooner. Since you burn more calories while nursing, it becomes easier for you to lose weight without sticking to dieting for regaining the shape sooner. Also, the extra fat that gets deposited over women’s body during her pregnancy also gets utilized during the early months of her pregnancy.

It has been proved that breastfeeding decreases the chances of development of various cancers in body. Mind it, that the woman’s risk of getting breast cancer gets proportionately reduced by the length of the time her breastfeeds. It means, longer you nurse, the better protection you have.women also notice a decrease in cervical as well as ovarian cancer when she breastfeeds.

The emotional advantages of breastfeeding include more intimate contact between you and your baby. It also increases the feeling of satisfaction plus a sense of fulfillment in you when you nurse your baby. In addition, the hormone prolactin, which causes the secretion of milk, helps you to feel motherly. It also has a soothing and a tranquilizing effect on your body. Every time you nurse your baby, the process calms and relaxes you tremendously. Breastfeeding also helps you to cop in stressful situations too. It has been proved that stress a hormone that gets released in woman’s body gets suppressed in her lactating period.

Traveling also becomes easier for breastfed babies both for mothers as well as their baby. You need not have to worry about packing anything, any supply or warm bottles. It frees you from the worry of the milk solution getting soured without refrigeration. so you can easily enjoy.


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