Breast Milk Benefits

Human Breast milk has been known as one of important nutrition for infants. Human breast milk contains lots of energy, vitamin, protein and mineral and also protects the infants from many diseases (WHO, 2002). This milk is coming from breastfeeding from mothers to their infants. Some researchers figured out the benefits of breastfeeding to infants are the baby cannot easily get infectious diseases, increasing the survival of the infants in their first time of live and increasing the cognitive ability of the infants when they grow up (Kramer and Kakuma, 2002,Jones, et al, 2003 and Kramer, et al, 2008).These benefits could occur to the infants if the breastfeeding was done in exclusive way in this case the infants feed only human breast milk without any other feeding and the duration is in the first 6 months of the infants lived (WHO, 2001). This term is known as exclusive breastfeeding. …show more content…
One of the benefit for mothers is that could prevent the mothers from sufferingof diseases, such as diabetes type I, breast and ovarian cancer and also cardiovascular diseases (Stanley et al, 2007 cited by McQueen, 2009, Schwarz et al, 2009). Another benefit of exclusive breastfeeding is that could increase the postpartum amenorrhea period which can be also as contraceptive method for the mother (Kramer and Kakuma, 2002, Becker and Ahmed, 2001).
Even though exclusive breastfeeding is very important for the mothers and the infants, but there are still a lot of mothers do not practice it correctly according to WHO recommendation. Around the globe, WHO estimated only 35 percent infants were getting exclusive breastfeeding (WHO, 2002). This data shown that exclusive breastfeeding still barely known around mothers despite its importance for them and their