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If you like the news so much like me, you must have been hard not to hear the reports on breast last week. This latest wave of news about natural breastfeeding is due to a new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics. This study confirms what we always knew: that breastfeeding is not only healthier, but also saves money on health cost. In fact, the study says that if 90% of mothers who give birth just to give them breast-feed their babies during the first six months of life could be saved 900 lives, would prevent many diseases whose treatment is expensive and therefore would avoid costs of 13.1 billion dollars in medical care.

With all the benefits of breast milk, the benefits to health and the pocket-it’s impossible not to ask why are not more mothers breastfeed their babies. It occurs to me that are not moms who do not want to breast-feed their babies. We know most of the mothers about breastfeeding their babies naturally, according to the study in question, 74% of mothers start breast-feeding or at least try to breastfeed her baby. But the ongoing number of mothers giving their babies breast milk decreases dramatically in a short time. At 3 months of age, only 33% infants are exclusively breast fed (or not take ‘formula’). At 6 months of age, only 14% of infants fed breast milk exclusively.

I think the drastic contrast between the newborns and infants at 6 months of age has to do with the lack of support for mothers who are breastfeeding their babies and the fact that society today does not see breastfeeding as a method ‘normal’ to feed our babies. If moms are trying to breast-feed their babies at birth, then it is obvious that there is a lack of knowledge on your part. Wonder what is happening to these mothers to feel the need to supplement feed their babies formula? What changes are necessary for mothers to continue giving their babies breast milk?

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