Breast Feeding Or Bottle Feeding?

You, I, and we experienced once in our life to be young and baby. We still need our mothers to feed us. Milk is very important to babies because it is their food and mother’s milk is the best milk for them. But due to busy schedule especially to those working mom, they don’t have any time to breastfeed their babies so they took the alternative way which is the bottle feeding to avoid their baby become hungry. But the question is what are the difference between the two ways in feeding your infants and what are the advantages and disadvantages in using the bottle feeding for your babies?

Breast Feeding

It is the feeding of babies with mother’s milk. And it is advisable for mothers to breastfeed their

Breast feeding

young for six months or more without adding solids and formula. This will protect the infant from catching diseases. But if the mother has incurable diseases such as incurable Tuberculosis, Human T- lymphotrophic Virus which is a human RNA retrovirus, a virus that can cause cancer and HIV or the mother is taking a drugs which is bad for mothers health and so with the baby, breastfeeding is not advisable for the mother to give her milk to her infant because you might transfer the disease which you have. Mother’s milk is the best food for your new born babies. There many benefits that both mother and the babies will receive or gain from breastfeeding but most of the benefits go to infant. Here are the benefits that babies will gain in taking mother’s milk.  That is why most of the mothers prefer to have their baby’s breastfeed.

v  Usually babies taking their mother’s milk will have a little chance of getting sick. Mother’s milk is full if antibodies that will protect your baby from diseases listed below.

• Respiratory Tract Infections
• Tooth Decays
• Diarrhea
• Intestinal Disease
• Asthma
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Leukemia And Lymphoma (Known to be Childhood Cancers)
• SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
• Anemia
• Heart Diseases

v  Mother’s milk is always available.

v  It is cost free.

v  Easy to digest.

v  Contains fatty acids that help for brain development.

v  In producing milk, you burn some calories and that will help you in losing your pregnancy weight and get back to the weight you have before getting pregnant.

v  It contains all the nutrients for your baby.

v  In this way, mother and baby relationship is strengthen because mothers will always have a time for their infants.

v  And mothers will have the less chance to have the following:

• Depression after pregnancy
• Diabetes
• Breast cancer
• Osteoporosis
• Iron Deficiency Anemia
• Cancer in the Ovary

Breastfeeding is also environmental friendly because you don’t have any containers to throw and you can save your energy and water for you don’t have to wash bottles and nipples. But mother don’t have enough time to prepare for the milk and since this milk can easily be digested, babies are easily get hungry. Yes, this way is very good for babies with their moms staying with their side and always has time and available but for those mothers who don’t have time for feeding their infants by breastfeeding because they are busy for work in order for them to survive especially for those single moms. It is very difficult for them to find time for her infant to breastfeed because of work and she could be so tired.  And also for those moms who can’t produce breast milk for their baby due to lack of prolactin which is the hormone that helps produce milk for baby. So there is the other way of feeding their infants and lets know what is and the benefits that the mother and the baby can gain.

Bottle Feeding

It is used to substitute or an alternative way in feeding infants. The milk is usually in a form of a powder and you need a bottle with water inside with exact amount and mix it before giving to babies. It is usually used by those babies that are not breastfed and those babies wherein their moms don’t have enough milk for them to take. But it is time consuming

Bottle Feeding

and costly. You have to find enough time for do the cleaning and sterilization of the bottles, teats or nipples, ring of the teats that is use to insert the teats in the bottle and the cap that is used to cover the bottle when the baby is not drinking and costly in the means that you have to set the budget for your baby’s milk. Babies’ milk this time is very expensive. It doesn’t mean that you have to buy every week unless you have triplets and that makes very costly and you need to have a big budget for that.  But you don’t have to worry in taking this way in feeding your baby  because bottle feed babies are still protected from infection or any diseases. In preparing the milk in a bottle you should make sure that you have the right amount.  And if you think that this way of feeding your baby is the best way and your baby can adopt in it, then go for it. But you should still consider the safety of your baby because this can still cause accident. If you think that milk that inside the bottle has already bad smell and was store for long time, you should throw it away and wash it and change it with new one. This can poison your baby and can lead to death. In choosing your babies milk you should have to make sure the nutrients that is present in the milk. Price won’t matter if you think that the milk with lower price has the best nutrients for your baby.  For sure, you should take a look at the contents of the milk you are buying. Many mothers have this way as their first choice in feeding their babies because they leave their infants in the care of the people they trust the most and can continue concentrating with their work.

Since we are living at a democratic country, we have our own choice because we have the freedom to do so. Nowadays, bottle feeding is commonly used and applies even for new born baby. But you have to consider the health and safety of you young infant.