August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month! Keep in mind: “breast fed is best fed and cow’s milk is the ideal food for the newly born and rapidly growing calf.”
From Don’t Drink Your Milk by Dr. Frank Oski
Healthy Tips for Your Infant
The Amazing Advantages of Breastfeeding
Having a baby? Start your child off on the best foot by breastfeeding! Did you know that breastfeeding not only provides your baby with the best nutrition, but also breast fed babies:
- have fewer ear infections
- have fewer upper respiratory tract infections
- have fewer gastrointestinal infections
Breast fed babies also become children and adults who have lower rates of
- diabetes
- allergies
- celiac disease
- Crohn’s disease
- obesity and overweight
- childhood cancers