COMPLICATIONS OF BREAST FEEDING

Complications of Breast Feeding

Complications of Breast Feeding

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to analyze the Complications of Breast Feeding.Scientific knowledge has demonstrated that breastfeeding is the preferred method of feeding and nurturing infants and is the primary means of achieving optimal infant health, growth, and development. Breast milk provides almost all of the necessary nutrients, growth factors, and immunological components a healthy term infant needs. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breastfeeding for at least the first year of life, and as long thereafter as is mutually desired by mother and child. However, breastfeeding rates differ substantially ...