https://bit.ly/37breast<br /><br />Unique ways that breastmilk can impact a child's health.<br /><br />Transcript:<br /><br /><br />00:06<br />Jamilah Ellis: There are things that your breast milk can<br />00:08<br />provide for your child that they can't get from any other<br />00:10<br />source, and so helping them, like, take hold of that power that<br />00:13<br />you have to really impact your child’s health in a positive way.<br />00:17<br />Dr. Sahira Long: Women know that there are benefits to<br />00:19<br />breastfeeding, but they don’t necessarily know that they’re<br />00:22<br />putting their children at certain risk if they choose not to<br />00:25<br />breastfeed.<br />00:26<br />Children who are breastfed have a lower risk of becoming obese.<br />00:29<br />The imprint that’s placed in infancy of learning when you’re<br />00:34<br />hungry and when you’re full is set by the baby as opposed to a<br />00:38<br />bottle.<br />00:38<br />Ekere Ekandem Olojala: As mothers we are concerned with the<br />00:40<br />baby finishing the bottle.<br />00:41<br />With breastfeeding, they move at their own pace when they’re<br />00:44<br />feeding.<br />00:45<br />They also have less problems with ear infections, no problems<br />00:50<br />with being constipated, because breast milk is easily digested.<br />00:54<br />Dr. Sahira Long: There is a much higher incidence of asthma in the<br />00:56<br />African-American community, where --<br />00:58<br />because asthma is more of an allergic and inflammatory<br />01:02<br />process, the thought is that different antibodies<br />01:07<br />and cytokines that the body --<br />01:10<br />that breast milk has, that formula doesn’t provide that<br />01:13<br />protection as moms nurse.<br />01:17<br />So moms get exposed to everything throughout the day and their<br />01:21<br />bodies automatically start making defenses against it, and so<br />01:25<br />that defense is passed in the form of antibodies through the<br />01:28<br />breast milk.<br />01:29<br />Jamilah Ellis: The benefits that I personally experienced from<br />01:31<br />breastfeeding was the relationship that I dealt with each of my<br />01:35<br />children, kind of having that one-on-one time on a regular<br />01:39<br />basis, like every day.<br />01:40<br />Dr. Sahira Long: Decreased respiratory infections, decreased ear<br />01:43<br />infections, decreased stomach infections.<br />01:46<br />So parents always want to know “what can I do to keep my child<br />01:50<br />from getting sick,” and this is one that, you know, vaccines are<br />01:54<br />definitely key, but this is, to me, the first vaccine. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Related:<br /><br />- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t04oa (The benefits of breastfeeding)<br /><br />- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t04k1 (Uncovering breastfeeding misconceptions)<br /><br />- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t03i4 (Making the decision to breastfeed)<br /><br /><br /><br />=================================================<br />Thanks for the input of womenshealth.gov<br />
