What are the benefits of breastfeeding?

  Whether for the baby or the mother, breastfeeding has many benefits, from the baby’s physical development to the recovery of the mother’s body, here are the advantages of breastfeeding.  1, reduce the risk of malnutrition, human milk is the most suitable for infants’ nutritional needs and digestive capacity of food, and can make the breast less infectious diseases, so it can ensure the normal growth of infants.  2, to enhance the mother and infant emotional communication, so that infants get a sense of security, is conducive to infant emotional development.  3, reduce the rate of disease in infants, such as exclusively breastfed infants rarely suffer from diarrhea, because the content and proportion of nutrients in human milk is suitable for the digestive function of infants, and also contains a variety of immune factors, and will not be contaminated.  4, early breastfeeding can promote the discharge of meconium, reduce bilirubin enterohepatic circulation, is conducive to reducing the degree of neonatal jaundice. Data show that breastfeeding can also reduce the likelihood of breast cancer and ovarian tumors in breastfeeding mothers.  5, breastfeeding can reduce infant mortality, domestic and foreign data show that different feeding methods of infants with different mortality rates, human breastfeeding is significantly lower than other ways of feeding.