Let's Breastfeed

It’s National Breastfeeding Awareness Week

This may seem like quite a full on week if you are still expecting your baby, but the gist of it really is or should be inspiring, if you are still undecided about whether or not you want to breastfeed your baby.

There are many benefits of breastmilk, many which will be discussed at length, so there really is little point me going over them. The one thing many mums tell me they would pass on, is that there is something so empowering about being the sole provider of all your baby’s nutrients from conception and throughout the breastfeeding relationship.

I mean, just think about it. As a woman, you grow and nurture this tiny little being, before it even looks human. You then bring this baby into the world, sometimes with a little help, but then you continue to feed it and it grows into a proper little human.

Somebody once said that it amazed them how you can just put milk into a baby and it grows – when as adults, we need to ensure that we are having our ’5 a day’ fruit and veg, fibre, protein, carbs – and yet all our babies need, is milk.

Of course breastmilk is so much more than food and as a breastfeeding friend says – ‘it is packaging is so soft and feminine, it just seems so right’.

So as you are bombarded with breastfeeding headlines, debates, arguments, name calling and everything else we normally see, think of how fantastic breastfeeding your baby will make you feel and how right it is for you and your family.

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