Major Reasons Why You Should Breast Feed Your Baby

Breast feeding is nowadays considered by many women as old school practice because technology has allowed availing nutritional requirements to the baby. Technology has helped a lot because babies who are abandoned by their mothers due to death or otherwise are able to live and have the basic nutrients for the growth and development. Because of this, women who can afford these formula foods do not see the reasons why to breast feed their babies so that they can maintain good shape of the breast and at the same time raise up children who are healthy, but at a disadvantage.

Traditionally, breast feeding should last for at least two years with variation of about six months. Children who are breast fed for a longer period of time tend to have good health as opposed to those who have not undergone any breast feeding. Personally, I have a brother who was breast fed for only one week. My mother had to stop breast feeding him because she was so sick at that time and later own she discovered that she was suffering from HIV related infections.

As a result of lack of basic acquired immunity that comes from breast feeding, my brother had a retarded development for many years. He took so long to learn the art of walking and talking. His age mates could run to and fro from place to place yet he did not even scroll. He could develop rushes on the body, have frequent ailments such as diarrhea, headache and skin related complications.

It reached a point when we thought that the brother was infected with HIV too and we had to take him to the health care center in order to know about his HIV status. The tests that were performed on him revealed that he was not HIV positive but that he lacked a lot in his immune system.