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= Breastfeeding = Breastfeeding is the action of using milk from a woman’s breast to feed an infant. The mother will hold the baby’s face up to her breast and encourage the baby to latch onto her breast. Once the baby is latched onto the breast, the baby will begin to drink the milk of the mother.

Breastfeeding can be a mother’s only form of feeding her child or it can be replaced or combined with baby formula.

Benefits
Most doctors recommend that the mother breastfeeds her child initially because it is the natural form of food for infants. Breast milk contains many nutrients that baby formula doesn’t have. These specific nutrients can help the baby in a number of ways. Breast milk helps prevents infectious disease, helps with their development, and more.

Breastfeeding also benefits the mother. Breastfeeding your child can help reduce the risk of developing post-partum depression, helps you bond with your child, and even helps reduce the risk of developing breast cancer.

Breastfeeding also costs less than baby formula. Baby formula has to constantly be bought and made, while breast milk is always readily available.

Drawbacks
Despite breastfeeding being the best option for your child, it might not be ideal in all situations. If the mother smokes, drinks alcohol, does drugs, or has an infectious disease, the mother should not breastfeed her child. Since breast milk is by a woman’s body inside a woman’s body, it can easily be contaminated with things like alcohol that could potentially hurt the child.

Breastfeeding is also hard if the mother has a short maternity leave. Employer’s, however, are supposed to give new mothers adequate time and a designated area to pump milk. Milk can be pumped, stored, reheated, and fed via bottle when the mother is in public or not around. Although not completely socially accepted, women can also breast feed in public with or without a covering over their child.