So your child has been born, you're at home and you wouldn't have to feed your baby for the best. Breastfeeding is the way to go. Recommendations in Australia are to exclusively breastfeed for around six months. Now not all women can do that, but there's a lot of help and support out there in the community to help the parents breastfeed for as long as possible.
Equally importantly is once the time has come to introduce solids continue to breastfeed if you wish to and if you can, because in the long term any breastfeeding is also really important for the health of your child and yourself. So the benefits of breastfeeding on many one of the most important is that there's a protective effect against later overweight and obesity.
But then there are a cognitive development benefits there are multitude of benefits and what a lot of women don't actually realize is there are also benefits for them for long-term breastfeeding. Especially major reductions in breast cancer and ovarian cancer and these are messages that are not put out there very often. But there are really good benefits of both the infant child and the mother to breastfeed for as long as possible.
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