The misconception about exclusive breastfeeding.

Greetings to all beautiful women in this community and happy new week, I took a week break from my blog last week to attend to some spiritual matters which I wrote in this post. It feels good to be back and realized I'm almost in club75 after the last 70 steem power up I did, I'm so excited right now and I plan to work twice hard so I can meet-up with been a dolphin this year, without much ado I will proceed to the main purpose of this post which is the misconception about exclusive breastfeeding of a baby.

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Exclusive Breast Feeding

Exclusive breast feeding is the act of feeding the baby only breast milk for the first six months of life. There was a research carried out which brings to the conclusion that breast milk is sufficient for the baby for the first six months of life, that is to say every nutrient the child needs for the first six months of life is in breast milk and feeding the child other food is not necessary. Breastmilk done not only contain all the nutrients for healthy growth it also helps to build a good immune system for the baby and also helps fight some common childhood diseases that babies goes through. The health benefits of breast feeding cannot be overemphasized. There is no doubt that at that stage breast milk is the best for your child.

Misconception About Exclusive Breastfeeding

In my country Nigeria where I reside there have been so many misconception about exclusive breastfeeding that we trend to forget the main purpose of exclusive breastfeeding. I have seen mothers in a competitive edge over exclusive breastfeeding and the kind of untrue statement that they make about exclusive breastfeeding. I understand the fact that exclusive breastfeeding is new to us and our own parents didn't do exclusive breastfeeding on us and we came out great but there is a study that says your child can be better if you breastfeed the child exclusively for six months. Every mum wants the best for their kids and exclusive breastfeeding is the best for any child but I totally understand if the mother have some health issues and can't breastfeed the child, that's totally fine but if you can, ensure to exclusively breastfeed your child, it's even the cheapest means of food to the baby. I have heard and read things like exclusive breastfed baby walks fasting than non exclusive baby or talk fast or are more intelligent and the likes. This is not true and I have read various argument about this , a child's development is different from the other and we should not let what others think or say influence our thinking, it's advisable to do our own research. There is no place that says so. Some of these things to a large extend depends on how you train your child. A child that was not exclusive breastfed but have a good training about a particular subject will obviously be more intelligent than a child that is exclusive breastfed and was not given any training at all.

Advantages of Exclusive Breastfeeding

These advantages are from what I have experienced with my baby and they includes:

• A healthy baby, since the birth of my baby I have had no course to visit the hospital except for checkups. No health issue whatsoever. She's very healthy and I can't remember the last time she took paracetamol or what so ever drug apart from multivitamins.

• There is a higher percent that an exclusively fed baby will have a fast mental development. I see that in my baby everyday. She does things and understand things way above her age.

These are the two advantage of exclusive breastfeeding I have noticed from my baby and I know there are more to these, kindly do your own research.

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If you are a mum and you want the best for your child, kindly read this with an open mind, don't think about today alone but consider the future of your child and do what's best for your child if you can.

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With Love

@peachyladiva