Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby

The breastfeeding benefits for baby are many and are lifelong. It is a fact that choosing not to breastfeed has lifelong consequences for your baby. Now, please be careful, we said choose not could not.

Now on the same vein, many women will say they could not. The fact on this issue is that at the very least, 1 percent of women worldwide cannot breastfeed, at most it is 3 percent and we doubt they are all located here in the good old USA!

When you have a baby, breastfeeding does not necessarily come easily for you - nor for your baby - but if you have the right support and seek help, most issues can be remedied. It is said that the number one reason women do not breastfeed is lack of support - not lack of ability. There is no shame in seeking help when help is needed.

Learn how to breastfeed properly here.

So what are the risks of not breastfeeding your baby?

Risks of not Breastfeeding to your Baby

Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Formula feeding increases your daughter's risks of breast cancer. Indeed baby girls who are NOT breastfed have an increased risk of breast cancer later on in life and that includes both cancers diagnosed before and after menopause.

The longer the breastfeeding relationship lasts, the lower the risks of cancer. (1)

Intelligence

Formula fed infants have lower I.Qs. than their breastfeeding counterparts.

It is a fact that human milk - being designed specifically for human infants - enhances brain development and improves cognitive development in ways that formula cannot.

Indeed while formula is dead, human breastmilk is a live food.

One study found that the average I.Q. for breastfed children - who were now 7 and 8 year olds - was 10 points higher than their bottle fed peers. All of these children involved had been born prematurely and were tube fed the human milk. This clearly shows that it was the breastmilk not the action of nursing that caused the difference in I.Q. levels.

In New Zealand, an 18 year longitudinal study of over 1,000 children found that those who were breastfed as infants had both higher intelligence and greater academic achievement than children who were infant-formula fed. And the list of studies goes on. (2)

Immune System

Another one of the breastfeeding benefits for baby is to his immune system.

Breast milk not only contains immunities to diseases but also aids in the development of your baby's immune system. Formula provides none of these benefits. You may be surprised to know that about 80% of the cells in your breast milk are macrophages. Macrophages are cells that kill bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

Your milk is also tailor made to your baby and adapts to your environment and your baby's stages of growth. It is a fact that you produce antibodies to every disease that is present in your environment - and therefore your baby's environment.

So in conclusion, your breastfed baby is protected from a number of illnesses including pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza, ear infections, German measles and many more. (3)

Bonding

As much as this is not politically correct - and bottle moms hate to hear it (with good reasons) - another of the many breastfeeding benefits for baby is the bonding it provides between you and your baby.

All babies need to be held, suckled and look at a human face: Breastfeeding provides all 3. Babies love being held close and cuddled while they nurse. We've heard that the bonding is all in our head as well as that this "bonding thing" is just another way to make formula feeding moms guilty. We beg to differ and we also believe that knowledge is power.

Studies have shown that premature babies are more likely to die if they are not held or stroked.

The act of suckling also stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin in your body. Oxytocin does not only help your uterus contract after childbirth and stimulates your milk ejection reflect, it also promotes the development of loving maternal behaviors as well as bonding between you and your baby hence its other name "the mothering hormone." (4)

Other studies have shown breastfeeding mothers to be more responsive to their infants' needs.

Crohn's Disease

What is Crohn's disease? It is inflammatory bowel disease that causes inflammation extending into the deeper layers of the intestinal wall. Crohn's is difficult to treat and it is very painful.

The good news is that several studies have shown that breastfed babies are less likely to develop this disease later in life. (5)

Diabetes

Another of the breastfeeding benefits for baby has to do with diabetes.

In fact, formula feeding is associated with an increased risk of your baby developing diabetes later in life.

Multiple studies have linked formula feeding - and therefore lack of breastfeeding - with insulin dependent - Type I - diabetes.

More recent studies are also showing that breastfeeding could also reduce your baby's risks of developing Type II diabetes. (6)

More Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby

Allergies

It is by now well known that breastfed babies suffer from far fewer allergies than formula fed babies. Breastfeeding does not only protect your baby against food allergies but other allergies as well: mainly eczema and respiratory allergies. (7)

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Asthma

The incidence of asthma is steadily climbing, so knowing that breastfeeding benefits for baby includes asthma is another great plus.

It is a fact that breast milk lowers your baby's risks of developing asthma. Numerous scientific studies have linked a lack of breastfeeding to asthma.

One study reported that six year old children were more likely to have asthma if they had not been exclusively breastfed for at least 4 months. The longer you breastfed the better the effects. (8)

Ear Infection

Studies have shown that ear infections are up to 3 to 4 times more common in formula-fed infants than breastfed babies. (9)

SIDS - Crib Death

It seems that another of the many breastfeeding benefits for baby is related to SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Research shows that formula feeding may increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome - SIDS.

While SIDS seems to have many factors, a number of studies are showing a link between lack of breastfeeding and SIDS. Case in point, a Swedish study has found that babies who were breastfed exclusively for less than 8 weeks had a 3 to 5 times greater risk of dying from SIDS than babies who were breastfed exclusively for four months. (10)

Infectious Diarrhea

This fact is true throughout the world and not just in third world countries where there is contaminated water: Breastfeeding protects your baby against diarrheal infections. (11)

Bacterial Meningitis

What is meningitis?

Bacterial meningitis is an infection which causes inflammation of the membrane covering your brain and spinal cord. It is caused by a bacteria called Hemophilus influenzae type b - HiB.

Breast milk protects your baby against this bacteria. (12)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Respiratory Infections

Breastfeeding effectively protects your nursing baby from many life-threatening respiratory infections including those caused by rotaviruses.

Studies have shown very clearly that your breastfed baby is less likely - by half! - to be hospitalized with pneumonia or bronchiolitis. But that is not all, she is also less likely - by one-fifth - to have lower respiratory tract infections compared to her formula fed peers. (13)

Cancer

Formula fed babies have a higher risk - and incidences - of developing certain childhood cancers.

a 21% less chance of getting leukemia than formula fed babies.

The risk decreased by 30% for children breast fed for 6 months.

Your breastfed baby is also less likely to develop Hodgkin's disease. Hodgkin's disease is a type of lymphoma - cancer of the lymph system. (14)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Arthritis

A study - done at the University of North Carolina/Duke University - indicated breastfed children were 40% less likely to develop juvenile rheumatoid arthritis than their formula fed peers.

A more recent study - done in Sweden - indicates that breastfed babies are less likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis as adults. (15)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Vision Defects

In a study done in Bangladesh, breastfeeding was a determining factor for night blindness among preschool-aged children in both rural and urban areas.

The reason?

Breast milk is the main - if not the only source - of vitamin A during a child's first 24 months of life or for the duration of the breastfeeding relationship. (16)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Osteoporosis

If you breastfeed, both you and your baby will be less at risk for the development of osteoporosis later in life. A study done by Dr. Alan Lucas in London found that 8-year-olds who were formula-fed rather than breast-fed as babies, had less developed bone mineralization. (17)

Proper Intestinal Development

A baby is born with no intestinal flora. Moreover, his gastrointestinal system is not yet mature. This means that it is still permeable - allowing bacteria, viruses and toxins to pass through. This intestinal permeability decreases more slowly in formula-fed babies. According to Dr. Jack Newman:

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Obesity

Many studies have demonstrated that formula-fed babies have significantly more risks for obesity throughout their life span!

A German study found that 4.5% of formula-fed children suffer from obesity, while only 0.8% of their breastfed counterparts suffer from obesity. (19)

Cardiopulmonary Distress

While feeding, your breastfed baby has less of a chance of cardiopulmonary distress than a bottle fed baby. This includes: prolonged airway closure and obstructed respiratory breaths due to repeated swallowing. (20)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Ulcerative Colitis

What is ulcerative colitis?

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that causes ulceration and inflammation of the inner lining of the colon and rectum.

Many scientific studies have demonstrated that breastfed babies are less likely to develop this disease. (21)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Hemophilus b. Bacteria

What is hemophilus b. bacteria?

Hemophilus influenzae type b is a bacteria which can grow in the respiratory tract with no symptoms, but may spread into the throat, ears or blood and cause a very dangerous - and life threatening - illness.

Your Breast-fed baby is much less vulnerable to such a bacterial overgrowth. But this protection is not just while your baby is still breastfeeding but also extends to as far as 10 years later! (22)

Necrotizing Enterocolitis

What is necrotizing enterocolitis?

This disease occurs most commonly in premature - or sick - newborns. The lining of the intestinal wall dies and sloughs off.

Babies receiving their mother's breast milk are less likely to suffer from necrotizing enterocolitis. An Australian study has estimated that 83% of necrotizing enterocolitis cases may be attributed to lack of breastfeeding. (23)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Infant Death

Your breastfed baby is not only less likely to contract a life-threatening disease but he is also better able to combat any illness that he contracts. (24)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Cholesterol

A British study - published in 2002 - found that breastfeeding was associated with lower levels of damaging cholesterol in adulthood. The authors of this study concluded that breastfeeding may have long-term benefits for cardiovascular health. (25)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Dental

The act of suckling milk out of a breast is known to facilitate proper dental and jaw development When your baby breastfeeds she has to use as much as 60 times more energy to get her food than a bottle fed baby. This means that your baby's jaws are receiving much more exercise. This added "work" assists the growth of well-formed jaws and straight, healthy teeth. Among breastfed infants, the longer the duration of nursing, the less chance of dental malocclusion.

Breast milk contains good bacteria fighting cells that may help kill the bacteria that cause tooth decay. However that is not all, bottle-fed babies are more likely to need extensive dental work due to the fact that formula - as well as juices - are higher in bad sugars.

Another benefit is that the longer you breastfeed, the more likely your baby's teeth will come in properly - straight. (26)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Speech Development

Your breastfed baby will develop better speech development than a bottle fed baby for various reasons: improper tongue thrust, improper jaw development, etc. (27)

Better Social Development

Your breastfed baby's psychomotor and social development clearly differs from that of a bottle fed baby. Moreover, suckling optimizes your baby's hand-to-eye coordination. This means she is able to see and manipulate objects quicker than her formula fed peers. (28)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: UTIs

Your breastfed baby has fewer chances - up to five times less - to have a urinary tract infections - UTI or bladder infection - than his bottle fed peers. (29)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Blood Pressure

A British study - published in 2004 - involving 4,763 children showed that 7.5 years later, those who were breastfed as infants had lower blood pressure compared with those who were never breastfed. In 2005. another British study showed that this benefit carried to adulthood. (30)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Multiple Sclerosis

Although - as of yet - no one seems to know why, lack of breastfeeding does appear to be associated with an increased incidence of multiple sclerosis. (31)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Inguinal Hernia

What is an inguinal hernia?

The inguinal canal brings down the spermatic cord and certain vessels to the groin area. An inguinal hernia is a defect in the opening where these things pass through from the abdomen to the groin because the canal opening gets too big or tears off therefore allowing the abdominal contents to get down into the groin area.

For unknown reasons, breastfeeding is protective against inguinal hernias. (32)

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby

Worldwide millions of babies die every year solely because they were not breastfed. Most of us would like to think this only occurs in third world countries...this assumption, however, would be false. In the United States alone, it is has been reported that an estimated 900 to 9,000 babies die each year of preventable illnesses would most likely would have lived had they received breastmilk.

Are we trying to make women feel guilty? No. Are we trying to educate? Yes. This is education that our medical system has failed to provide and which the formula companies have gotten an A+ at doing. Many still believe that formula is second best to breastmilk...it is not. According to the WHO, formula should be the last resort after all has been done to acquire human milk!

Babies are born totally 100% dependent on the adults in their life to do right by them. But our society tells us it is a choice...tell us what baby would choose to be bottle fed if given a choice? Yes, we understand, for some parents there are truly no choices.

In the United States, 73% of mothers leave the hospital breastfeeding. By 3 months the number has dropped to 33% and by 6 months, this number does not even reach 14%. We could not find statistics past 6 months.

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: How Long?

So how long should this breastfeeding relationship last? If we had no entrenched cultural biases in our society, we would say as long as mom and baby want. But in the United States, nursing toddlers sure raise eyebrows!

The American Academy of Pediatrics - AAP - new recommendations are that babies should receive human milk exclusively for at least 6 months and then for at least 1 year and beyond for as long as mutually desired by mother and child.

The American Dietetic Association promotes breastfeeding and states that "Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and breastfeeding with complementary foods for at least 12 months is the ideal feeding pattern for infants..."

The World Health Organization - WHO - and UNICEF are very supportive of breastfeeding and actively promote it. They state that:

Breastfeeding Benefits for Baby: Is this All?

Nope it is not! Here are still more breastfeeding benefits for baby:

There is much more...but ultimately...it seems to us that breastfeeding involves a tad of common sense...give birth...milk in breasts...the end!

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