Whole Baby Feeding
If you are expecting a baby soon, you’re probably wondering about the whole debate to do with feeding a baby formula as opposed to choosing to get a child breast-fed.
Does this sound like having a baby feeding on breast milk is great for the baby but not for the mother? Not really. To begin with, breast-feeding helps a new mother lose calories that would otherwise get deposited around the waist. The kind of volume of exercise a new mother would have to undertake to do to lose those pounds would be pretty high. Breast-feeding also helps them get into shape quickly by helping the uterus get back to its normal size far more quickly. And of course, researchers say that there is some evidence that breast-feeding helps the new mother keep breast and ovarian cancer away.
So far so good; is there anything at all that recommends formula over breast milk? Well, a baby feeding on formula needs to be fed far less often. A baby’s digestive system doesn’t digest formula as quickly as it does breast milk. A mother can keep a close watch on how much exactly her baby is getting when it’s formula too. Not to mention, for a working mother, bottlefeeding can be so much less demanding. This gives a mother more time to sleep through the night. And that is an advantage that is not to be taken lightly.
