Natalie: This is part 2 or breastfeeding talking about the benefits of breastfeeding for the mom, for the environment and just benefits in general. So, today we are going to talk about the top ten benefits that we dint talk about in the first video which were the top ten benefits for the baby.
First I want to give you some statistics because although women may breastfeed in the hospital and then right after they leave they have this new infant and they are breastfeeding that's great but what startling is that yes 70% of mothers are breastfeeding while they are in the hospital but the number drops to 33% after 6 months which is the recommendation for a full six months exclusively breastfeeding and then the number gets even scarier because then it drops to 17% after one year and one year in my opinion is really the goal that mothers should be shooting for and so although women start off pretty good in the hospital setting overtime it just gets really easy to transition the baby to dissolve food and forget about the benefits that breastfeeding has. So, that what we are going to reinforce it today.
So, one of the best benefits in general for women is after we are pregnant, after we have babies we want to lose the baby, we want to lose that weight and one of the way to do that is through breastfeeding you burn more calories while you are breastfeeding and also helps to decrease your uterus size which is, obviously, expanded when you are pregnant and so the hormone process that goes on while you are breastfeeding help to reduce that down and then also helps to minimize bleeding after you had delivery with the baby.
Breastfeeding also helps to delay the ovulation and menstruation after you had your baby, nothing could be more frustrating is if you had just had your baby and then immediately start ovulating and then you get pregnant again unless that was your goal, you know intended goal but there is research out there to show that if you get pregnant immediately after having a child, it actually hasn't as healthy as if you waited a little bit longer to have your second child. So, just the fact that breastfeeding delays that process that showing you that nature is really taking care of things in itself.
Breastfeeding helps to reduce the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in the breastfeeding mother. So, breastfeeding is not as popular as it should be and breast cancer is on the rise, this is one great way to reduce that risk. Breastfeeding helps save you money not only if that the most natural healthiest way to deliver nutrients to your infant but you don't have to pay for formula and that can be expensive and with formula when we talked about this is in the other video your infant is mostly susceptible to infection and disease and recurring illness, which is of course going to increase your healthcare costs, you are going to have to get the doctor more often.
So in a lot of different avenues breastfeeding is going to help save your money and of course the most obvious benefit for a breastfeeding is that the mother is able to develop a close intimate relationship with the infant. They are able to bond, they spend time together where as if you are giving formula to your infant, they are feeding from a bottle, you don't necessarily have that same connection with that baby, and you are able to spend that devoted time with them and may look to you as their source of resources for what they need.
Breastfeeding does help to reduce your child's risk for tooth decay and for choking. So, if you put your baby to bed with a bottle at night which is something that you should actually never do and the reason why that is because it really increases the risk of tooth decay and really increases the risk for choking, it's a choking hazard for them to sleep with the bottle in their mouth. So, avoid that as much as possible and as breastfeeding a child then of course you will eliminate that risk. One of the benefits for society in general is that if everyone breastfed then we would decrease our total healthcare costs. Mothers would have to take their infants to the healthcare less often that wouldn't be as much mist work for doctor's appointments, there wouldn't be as much hospitalizations for illnesses that could have been prevented just overall we can save our society money and healthcare costs.
A study recently found that mothers who breastfed missed work less often and were more productive while they were at work. So, and I have actually heard people say oh its less convenient to breastfeed and its harder to be a working parent but actually there is a lot of regulations in place now if you are breastfeeding mother then there are opportunities for you to take breaks to either breastfeed your infant at the daycare schools by or to pump your breasts if you are trying to store milk for the infant for later.
So there is opportunities for you to continue that and i don't want you to think that it is not convenient or its not going to allowing you to work and then of course for the environment if you are breastfeeding your children there isn't more waster plastic and trash waste because we are not having any bottles we are not having to buy canisters of formula there is just less waste in general because we are delivering nutrients to our child the natural way without having to use products that are made and can harm our environment and you can breastfeed your child even if you are sick, even if you have a cold, if you have diarrhea, a lot of the common illnesses you can still breastfeed your child without risk of passing on that bacteria or that infection or that sickness to your infant.
So, don't stop breastfeeding just because you are sick of course if it's a severe illness you want to get that checked out through your doctor but most common illnesses you know colds, and flu and even diarrhea, those will not transfer so you are safe to continue breastfeeding.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that you breastfeed your child upto six months exclusively, that's the minimum and then may say that you can breastfeed upto a year with and what they breastfeeding support so in combination with other foods that you introduced in to their diet and my professional opinion and personal opinion as well is that you breastfeed as close to 12 months as possible and it doesn't have to be exclusive with the entire 12 months but you know 12-15 months if you are in that range you are really providing your child with the best nutrition you are giving them the best benefit of all the antibodies you are delivering the immune benefits to them through the breast milk, they overall will have lower rates of obesity we have been talked about on the other video that your children can have either higher IQs which are so many benefits and certainly it makes sense to breastfeed if possible.
So, the video is coming up, I am going to do on Japan and the reason why we are highlighting Japan is because they only have a 3% obesity while the America its 32%.
So, in other words America is ten times fatter than Japan so what's their secret, that's we are going to find out and then the other video we are going to talk about is the truth about alcohol. What does research really say about it effects your body, thank you for subscribing, thanks to every one who has been watching these videos, thank you for leaving your comments and I love reading what you write, and I especially want to thank those of you who rate the video, most people don't but it really helps us determine how you like the videos, the feedback that we are getting, so that we know how we are doing. So, thank you for doing that and I will see you next time. Bye, bye.
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