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Related: 5 breastfeeding positions for moms to try with their baby. Related: 13 breastfeeding tips for new moms from a lactation consultant. Rosenthal says yes — pumping allows a support person to help with feeds, offers options for feeding in public or while traveling, and may be a tool used to increase milk supply. Related: How long should you breastfeed? A lactation consultant weighs in.

Home - Diet, activity and cancer - Cancer risk factors - Lactation breastfeeding and cancer risk. We analyse global research on how lactation or breastfeeding affects the risk of developing cancer. The evidence shows that, in general, the greater the number of months that women continue breastfeeding their babies, the greater the protection these women have against breast cancer. There is also other evidence that is limited either in amount or by methodological flaws but is suggestive of a decreased risk of ovarian cancer in women who breastfeed. Further research is required, and the Panel has not used this evidence to make recommendations. A review of breastfeeding patterns around the world suggests that most mothers, regardless of income group, breastfeed their babies at some point after birth.

More than 80 percent of U. Many studies support breastfeeding for as long as possible, and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies get nothing but human breast milk until the age of six months — and that they continue to breastfeed for at least a year. That's up significantly from just 35 percent of women in But then it drops off.

Breastfeeding is good for both mothers and babies. Breast milk not only is the best source of nutrition for all the babies but also safeguards them from getting asthma, obesity, type 1 diabetes, respiratory disease, ear infections, sudden death syndrome and any other infections while breastfeeding is equally beneficial for feeding mothers as it prevents them from getting cancers, diabetes, blood pressure, obesity and many diseases if she continues to breast feed the baby for a longer period. The risk of a bottle-fed baby catching infections like diarrhoea is three times and respiratory infections is five times higher than a breastfed baby. Few of the other disadvantages of bottle feeding are formula milk is not as nutritious as breast milk. Breast milk is also lighter on the stomach than formula milk.