breastfeeding page.JPGBreastfeeding gives your baby the best start in life!

Breast milk is easy to digest and provides a complete meal for your newborn as it contains all the necessary nutrients to help your baby grow. Breastfeeding has health benefits for you as well as protecting your baby against infections and other illnesses.

Breastfeed babies have less risk of developing:

  • allergies
  • asthma
  • diarrhoea
  • ear and respiratory tract infections (the common cold)
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS
  • some childhood cancers
  • diabetes

Breastfeeding helps reduce a woman's risk of:

  • pre-menopausal breast cancer
  • ovarian cancer
  • osteoporosis

Breastfeeding is free, saves you time and has many natural health benefits.

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