Breastfeeding Your Baby: Why It’s Important

Breast feeding baby dolls have become common and controversial, and it’s interesting that a natural method to provide optimal nutrition to our babies is controversial, or that teaching our children about it is too.

In fact, it’s rather odd that it’s much less controversial to regularly see breasts prominently highlighted on magazine covers and billboards as sexual symbols, but that their primary purpose, which is to feed our young, has become regarded as obscene.

Breast milk is a powerful substance with many benefits, and store bought formula just can’t compete. Actually, without these key nutrients, our young are much more likely to develop health problems.

Recently, the World Health Organization said that literally millions of lives around the world would be spared if the children had been breast feed. It’s a powerful statement that speaks to the power and importance of breastfeeding.

In addition to providing an optimal protein and nutrient balance, breast milk is one of the few sources in nature containing disease fighting medium-chain fatty acids. Medium-chain fatty acids are important substances that are known to kill viruses, fungus and even bacteria. Nature put medium-chain fatty acids in breast milk to protect our young from problems while their immune systems are still developing. Medium chain fatty acids are also found in coconut oil and can be supplemented, even in adults, by consuming consuming coconut oil regularly.

Breast milk also contains healthy bacteria for our colons. These healthy bacteria are one of our body’s primary disease fighting mechanisms, and with ample amounts of these healthy bacteria, many germs and bacteria cannot gain a foothold in our bodies. And if those germs and bacteria can’t get a foothold, they won’t be the cause of disease.

When you understand all of the properties of breast milk, it’s easy to see why breast milk is the ideal food for babies. Because, in addition to offering optimal nutrition, it actually works on a number of levels to protect infants from diseases in their childhood and beyond.

Nature, in its infinite wisdom, provided this substance for human babies and for some reason our culture has determined it to be perverse. However, it’s more likely that this cultural mindset speaks to the nature of our society, as opposed to the nature of breastfeeding.