- Best Milk for Your Baby
- Your breastmilk has all the vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional elements that your baby needs. There is no formula that comes close to what your breastmilk can offer!
- Breastmilk Provides Immunity for your Baby
- Human milk contains an ingredient called pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor(PSTI). This ingredient can repairs and protects your infant’s’ intestine. It’s present seven times higher colostrum, which helps provide extra protection to your sweet baby. Colostrum also contains the best concentrated immunological properties to help protect them from all the germs they are suddenly exposed to.
- Breastfeeding Helps Develop Your Infant’s Jaw
- As your baby breastfeeds, the muscles in their jaws are massaged and exercised in a way that causes the bones in their face and jaw to develop more fully.
- Breastfeeding Helps with Clearing Meconium
- Another reason colostrum is the superpower of breastmilk! Colostrum is a laxative that will help get your baby’s intestine moving and helps clean out all that nasty, tar-like stool that we call meconium. Meconium is stool that is build up in your baby’s system before birth.
- Breastfeeding Benefits the Mother as Well
- There are many cool ways breastfeeding helps benefits mother. It can become an insurance policy against breast, uterine, and cervical cancer! It can also prevent factors that lead to heart disease and diabetes.
Breastfeeding is the best thing you can do for you and your baby. It’s not always easy and can be very overwhelming and difficult at times. But know that you are not alone. We partner with The Lactation Collection (TLC) and hold breastfeeding support groups here at our center to help you in your breastfeeding journey. If you are having a hard time, please reach out for support. Also, remember that you and your baby are learning, and it might take a little bit to get the hang of it. We are here to help you in this beautiful journey.
