Breastfeeding

In the fifties and sixties, the emancipation of women led to the fashion of bottle-feeding the newborn, which was synonymous with freedom. Fortunately, nowadays the same women's movement, led by the conviction that knowledge is the way to control one's life and body, promotes natural feeding being the best for the baby and for themselves.

Breast milk is tailored to the individual needs of each child, depending, for example, on their age. The right ingredients are selected from the mother's bloodstream and at least 100 ingredients are known that are not found in cow's milk. Among other things, it is easier to digest due to the lower amount of protein compared to cow's milk. In addition, the protein in breast milk is more nutritious.

The fat content is similar, but the fat of cow's milk is less digestible (breast milk is less likely to cause overweight children and obesity in later life). Most often the baby is not found to be allergic to its own mother's milk, so common in the present day after various mixtures.

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Soya milk substitutes, which are often used in such situations, are even further away in their composition from natural milk.

Breastfed babies suffer less often from constipation asbreast milk is easily digestible. They also suffer less often from diarrhoea due to the colonisation of the beneficial bacterial flora of the baby's digestive tract. Natural milk contains less phosphorus (beneficial effect on the baby's calcium level) and minerals (less strain on the baby's kidneys). The iron content is similar in breast milk and cow's milk, but its bioavailability differs. From cow's milk, iron is absorbed in 2- 25% and from breast milk in 75%.