Patient Education – Breast Feeding

Benefits of breast feeding. For baby: bonding, colic, digestion (1.5-h vs 4-h), allergy, intelligence IQ, reflux, constipation, immune (colostrum), infection (OM, UTI, lower resp., GI). For mother: weight, postpartum bleeding, postpartum depression, bone density, ovary and breast cancer, CV disease, DM2 (source link)