Why Breastfeeding?
Breastfeeding is a foundation for healthy mothers and babies. Research has shown that there is no better food than breast milk for a baby's first year of life. Breastfeeding provides health, nutritional, economic and emotional benefits to both mother and baby. It is a key strategy for the prevention of diabetes type I and II, obesity, some cancers like lymphoma, leukemia and Hodgkins disease, and asthma. (American Academy of Pediatrics)
For many women, a reluctance to breastfeed stems from fears and misconceptions. Will I have enough milk? Breastfeeding hurts! I can't breastfeed, because I have to go back to school/work. Sometimes all a new mother needs is someone to talk to. Someone who knows what it's like to breastfed a baby. Someone she trusts.
