The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends breastfeeding throughout baby's aboriginal year. "Human milk is the complete absolute aliment for an babyish -- abounding of active antibodies and customized for your baby," says Mary Kat Smith, R.N., a lactation adviser at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. If the abstraction seems a bit overwhelming, don't worry. Most moms get the adhere of it appealing quickly. When in doubt, cull out this accessible breastfeeding guide. And remember:

          Breastfed babies accept beneath respiratory problems, ear infections, colds and flu than formula-fed babies. Breastfeeding additionally reduces a child's accident of blazon 1 and 2 diabetes, adolescence leukemia, obesity, affection ache and SIDS (sudden babyish afterlife syndrome).
    Breast milk is accessible to digest, so nursing babies are beneath acceptable to ache from constipation, abatement and allergies. 
     Oxytocin, a hormone produced during nursing, helps the uterus contract, acceptance moms to balance faster post-delivery.
    Breastfeeding reduces a woman's accident of developing breast and ovarian cancers, blazon 2 diabetes, affection disease, aerial claret burden and aerial cholesterol after in life.
    Breast milk is free, consistently the appropriate temperature, and the fat agreeable alike changes according to baby's needs.
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