Child Nutrition and Health

Breast Feeding

Breastfeeding, also known as nurturing, is the feeding of babies and young children with milk from a woman's breast. Breastfeeding is the normal way of providing young infants with the nutrients they need for strong growth and progress. Colostrum, the yellowish, sticky breast milk produced at the end of pregnancy, is suggested as the perfect food for the new born. Breastfeeding has a number of reimbursements to both mother and baby.

• Production of breast milk
• Composition of breast milk
• Benefits of breast milk
• Medicinal uses of breast feeding
• Immunity obtained by breast milk
• Problems related to breast milk
• Vaccinations
• Breastfeeding and alternatives