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| Developed as a student project for the Breastfeeding Course For Health Care Providers, Douglas College, Canada. |
Have you ever wondered what the ingredients are in breastmilk? Have you ever looked at the back of a formula can to have a look at the ingredients? Each year "new" things are being discovered in breastmilk. This poster is an excellent resource for mums to see just what the big deal is about breastfeeding! Not only does breastmilk have HEAPS more ingredients, they are constantly changing to meet the needs of babies and toddlers. Your milk actually changes if you and/or your baby have been exposed to something to protect your baby or toddler. How cool is that?!
Please do not read this and think, "...but I had to feed my baby formula! Don't judge me!" My personal opinion on artificial breastmilk is this: artificial breastmilk (formula) is a medicine and should be used as such. There are cases and situations where a mum cannot access donor milk, does not have enough milk herself or a woman trying to work out what food her baby is allergic to in her milk... and they are all doing the best they can. I am not writing this to create guilt here, I am writing this to show all of the mums out there how different the two are. It is not possible to make an informed choice if you do not have all of the information...
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