Why should I breastfeed my immune Tx baby?
formula milk costs about 8 a packet and each packet doesn’t last very long – and there is the cost of buying bottles, sterilizing, endless washing up and having to think about making up feeds everytime you go out breastfeeding has been proven to give numerous health benefits for baby including fewer episodes of vomitting, diarrhea, ear, chest and urine infections, meningitis, septicaemia, – which could mean less emergency time off work for you as well as a happier, healthier baby autoimmune tendencies run in families and breastfeeding is thought to improve development of the thymus gland (where immune cells are matured) and reduce the risk of autoimmune disorders in childhood e.g., asthma, excema, arthritis and later life e.g., insulin dependent diabetes, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, coeliac disease etc. The risk of type 1 diabetes is thought to increase by exposure to antigens e.g., insulin, from cow’s milk (in formula) before baby’s immune system is able to cope (from about 6
