Breastfeeding Is A Perpetual Relevance For The Babies' Health

May 27,2010
Breastfeeding Is A Perpetual Relevance For The Baby’s Health
By Quirico M. Gorpido, Jr.

Breastfeeding is a perpetual relevance for the baby’s overall health requirements. Married women who become pregnant have the duties and the responsibilities to breastfeed their babies. Breastfeeding is an indispensable natural biological process between the mothers and the babies. So inevitable that the process of breastfeeding should last, not only for six months, or one year, but for at least two years duration. Six months or one year is so insufficient of a mother who considers the health benefit she can give to her baby. The vitamins and minerals she is secreting for her child during breastfeeding are so vital and essential that processed canned milk cannot equally provide.
Breastmilk is a natural production of all healthy mothers that’s free. All mothers have to do is to eat regularly plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits, occasional lean meat, sea foods, non-fat milk,grains,rootcrops,legumes,fishes needed in the production of profuse milk for their babies.
On the personal vein, we were all being breastfed by our mother when we were in the infancy. The palpable manifestation that we were breastfed was that we were being told and we saw it also in live demonstration towards our younger siblings. My younger sister and brother were breastfed for almost 2 years each. But in the medical article that I have read, it should be at least two years to breastfeed every baby in a family.
Cutting the required 2 years of breastfeeding to one year or even less, is only allowable to mothers who, due to biological and health reasons, have produced only an insufficient amount of milk for their babies. Or it has a salty taste that a baby tends to avoid sucking the mother’s nipple in succession and turn away.
In this case canned milk could enter into consideration as an additional support for the baby’s need of milk. The natural and processed milk, the kind that a baby’s stomach tolerates could be fed in alteration everyday until two years, depending upon the baby’s health condition.
My younger sister who got married at the age of seventeen or eighteen and became a mother has breastfed her 4 children in their infancy for 2 years each. But she chose to breastfeed her youngest son for straight three years. Here we can see the big difference between breastfeed babies and canned milk-feed babies. The former have the stronger resistance to diseases compared to the latter. Many studies show that breastfeed babies have a very lower rate of mortality than the canned milk-fed babies. Why? Simply because the mother’s milk has all the necessary nutrients needed by a new born baby than those canned milk available in stores and groceries. Unless it is very necessary to add canned milk for the baby’s supplemental need of vitamins and minerals due to the mother’s abnormal health condition, healthy mothers should focus only on breastfeeding their babies-for again, at least two years. Married women who have babies should be more concerned in providing their children with the best natural milk that they can offer, and that is their breastmilk, which is excellent than any other kind of existing milk on earth..
Again, nothing can outweight the health benefits of biological milk compared with other liquid food produced by man available in public market, stores and groceries.
Do you know that majority of our “bright’ and “genius” men and women in various fields of endeavor are breastfeed babies during their infancies? And breastfeed babies have stronger resistance to childhood diseases than those canned milk or bottle-fed babies. That’s why there’s a higher mortality rate among the latter beings, studies show. When some breastfeed-milk producing mothers are tempted to shorten their responsibilities to breastfeed their babies for only six months or one year, they should not succumb to this kind of temptation. They should be more concern on the well-being and health of their babies than the imaginative prediction of potential disfigurement of their beautiful breasts-a sustaining condition which will remain only if they were still single women.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)