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Breastfeeding is beneficial for infants and children because it is natural, nutritionally complete, contains antioxidants and immune substances that can prevent many infectious diseases, especially intestinal infections. Breast milk should still be given to infants until six months of age and continues to be given to children under two years old.

Breastfeeding may take a little more effort than formula feeding at first. But it can make life easier once you and your baby settle into a good routine. When you breastfeed, there are no bottles and nipples to sterilize. You do not have to buy, measure, and mix formula. And there are no bottles to warm in the middle of the night. Ways that breastfeeding can make your life easier. 

Formula and feeding supplies can cost well over $1,500 each year, depending on how much your baby eats. Breastfed babies are also sick less often, which can lower health care costs. So, breastfeeding can save money.

Physical contact is important to newborns. It can help them feel more secure, warm, and comforted. Mothers can benefit from this closeness, as well. Breastfeeding requires a mother to take some quiet relaxed time to bond. The skin-to-skin contact can boost the mother’s oxytocin (OKS-ee-TOH-suhn) levels. Oxytocin is a hormone that helps milk flow and can calm the mother.

Breastfeeding can be good for the mother’s health, too. Breastfeeding is linked to a lower risk of these health problems in women:
Type 2 diabetes•
Breast cancer•
Ovarian cancer•
Postpartum depression•
Experts are still looking at the effects of breastfeeding on osteoporosis and weight loss after birth. Many studies have reported greater weight loss for breastfeeding mothers than for those who don’t. But more research is needed to understand if a strong link exists.

The experience of breastfeeding is special for so many reasons, including:
• The joyful bonding with your baby
• The perfect nutrition only you can provide
• The cost savings
• The health benefits for both mother and baby

In fact, breast milk has disease-fighting antibodies that can help protect infants from several types of illnesses. And mothers who breastfeed have a lower risk of some health problems, including breast cancer and type 2 diabetes.
Keep in mind that breastfeeding is a learned skill. It requires patience and practice. For some women, the learning stages can be frustrating and uncomfortable. And some situations make breastfeeding even harder, such as babies born early or health problems in the mother. The good news is that it will get easier, and support for breastfeeding mothers is growing.

Breastfeeding Protects Babies
Early breast milk is liquid gold. Known as liquid gold, colostrum (coh-LOSS-trum) is the thick yellow first breast milk that you make during pregnancy and just after birth. This milk is very rich in nutrients and antibodies to protect your baby. Although your baby only gets a small amount of colostrum at each feeding, it matches the amount his or her tiny stomach can hold. 

Your breast milk changes as your baby grows. Colostrum changes into what is called mature milk. By the third to fifth day after birth, this mature breast milk has just the right amount of fat, sugar, water, and protein to help your baby continue to grow. It is a thinner type of milk than colostrum, but it provides all of the nutrients and antibodies your baby needs.
Breast milk is easier to digest. For most babies – especially premature babies – breast milk is easier to digest than formula. The proteins in formula are made from cow’s milk, and it takes time for babies’ stomachs to adjust to digesting them.
Breast milk fights disease. The cells, hormones, and antibodies in breast milk protect babies from illness. This protection is unique; formula cannot match the chemical makeup of human breast milk. In fact, among formula-fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common. Formula-fed babies also have higher risks of:
Necrotizing (nek-roh-TEYE-zing) entero• colitis (en-TUR-oh-coh-lyt-iss), a disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract in pre-term infants.
Lower respiratory infections•
Atopic dermatitis, a type of skin rash•
Asthma•
Obesity•
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes•
Childhood leukemia •
Breastfeeding has also been shown to lower the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome).

Pregnancy causes many changes in the mother's body. These changes to the mother's body adjust to the circumstances of her pregnancy. The use of nutrients by the body decreases in the first 4 months of pregnancy so that the body's need for food is also reduced in the first few months of pregnancy.

To be able to feed properly in pregnant women, the changes that occur in pregnancy need to be understood:
1. Calories (Energy)
2. Protein
3. Folate (Folic Acid)
4. Minerals (Iron, Zinc, Calcium)
5. vitamin C
6. vitamin A

The diet during, even before, pregnancy has to be rich in calories, proteins, vitamins & minerals and balanced. The needs vary in the three trimesters. Generally the gestation period in homosapiens (human) is approximately 40 weeks measured from the mother's last menstrual cycle.

Energy - the energy needs of the body increase manifold and are increased by 300 kcals per day. Trimester wise an additional calorie intake is recommended as below:
1st trimester  - about 10 kcals/day
2nd trimester  - about 90 kcals/day
3rd trimester  - about 200 kcals /day.

 

During pregnancy the daily nutritional requirements (Recommended Daily Dietary Allowances/ RDA) women increased by more than two-fold, such as for example an increased need for folic acid to 400µg/​​day, where in normal circumstances only 180 µg/​​day, and other essential nutrients such as vitamin E and unsaturated fatty acids, but it is often difficult to achieve fulfillment. Unsaturated fatty acids are needed for the development of the intelligence of the fetus, infants and young children.

As a result of low intake of vitamin E for pregnant women make at birth often suffer from a deficiency of vitamin E, which can affect the blindness (retinopathy of Prematury), chronic lung problems (bronchopulmonary dysplasia / BPD), hemoragic intra-ventricular, and problems with the nervous system .

One alternative to solving the problems faced by pregnant women to be able to meet the RDA of folic acid, vitamin E, fiber, and unsaturated fatty acids are a byproduct utilization of the wheat milling wheat germ and wheat bran. 

Wheat germ contains vitamin E (2642miugram / ​​g), folic acid (5.2 miugram / ​​g) and unsaturated fatty acids (8:18 miugram / ​​g), while wheat bran contains high levels of fiber (55.34%). Production of wheat flour to produce wheat germ and wheat bran respectively 12-14% and 14-16%, or a cumulative production of wheat flour produces byproducts by 28%. Enormous resources far only used for animal feed should be able to make a significant contribution to the increase in nutrients pregnant women.