Polly is a single mother with a 5-month-old baby. And she's doing what she can to provide for him. She has nursed Cal from birth and sees how strong and healthy he is growing.
Nutritionally, mother's milk alone provides optimal nourishment for baby's first four to six months of life. As other foods are added to the diet, breast milk remains the ideal food for infants for at least 12 months. Strong evidence that breastfed infants have far fewer health problems has now spurred the World Health Organization to recommend that children be breastfed up to 2 years of age and beyond.
What's good about it? Milk produced by one's own species is uniquely superior to all other milk substitutes, according to a recent position paper by the American Dietetic Association. It contains the right mixture of nutrients in the right form to be better absorbed than other infant foods.
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This article cracked me up - be sure to read it all the way through to see why. :)
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