Mums benefit from breastfeeding too • Best For You, Best For Baby

Breastmilk is tailor made for your baby. It helps your baby fight illnesses and infections. Babies who do not receive any breastmilk are more likely to get illnesses, such as diarrhoea, bronchiolitis and are at an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. Longer term, babies who breastfeed are at a reduced risk of childhood cancers, diabetes, asthma, allergies and eczema.

Breastfeeding also has many benefits to the mother. Including lowering the risk of breast cancer, osteoporosis, postnatal bleeding, and of course it is free!

Breastfeeding is natural and kinder to the planet without unnecessary transportation and pollution. It also saves the NHS a lot of money.

It is recommended to exclusively breastfeed for the first 6 months, followed by continued breastfeeding with solid food for as long as possible, but every feed matters. So whether you are thinking of one feed or more, every drop is so important!

TERMINOLOGY:
In the interests of inclusivity, any reference to breastfeeding also relates to chestfeeding. The traditionally female pronouns also include those who identify as male and those who wish to identify as genderfluid or non-binary. We also recognise those who choose to express for their baby or others and feed human milk via another method. Any reference to mothers or fathers also includes those who do not identify as mothers or fathers but do breast/chestfeed their child, support another person to breast/chestfeed or feed donor milk. We also support and recognise the family unit which is made from any combination of genders/sexual orientation/biological sex. When we refer to ‘baby’ or ‘infant’ we also promote natural term breastfeeding and recognise that toddlers and children breastfeed or chestfeed. We celebrate this and include all children as potential breastfeeders/chestfeeders.