• Fear of failure often leads women to formula feed.
• If this trend is to be reversed, then early education is vital.
• You can succeed whatever the size of your breasts!
• Breastfeeding will not ruin the shape of your breasts in the future. Once you have finished feeding, they will return to approximately their pre-pregnant size!
• Inverted or flat nipples need not be a problem and many women breastfeed successfully with little or no help.
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend that you should exclusively breastfeed for a minimum of six months, with continued feeding for two years and beyond. But why stop there?
• You can continue to feed your toddler even if you are pregnant with another baby!
• If you exclusively breastfeed, then your periods may not return for up to a year! This is nature's way of making the natural, and therefore safer, gap between children longer. This benefits both mother and infant. However, breastfeeding should not be relied upon as a method of contraception.
© Sharon Trotter
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