How Breastfeeding Empowers Women

By Bestfed.com

1. Breastfeeding reduces a mother's economic and medical dependence.

2. Breastfeeding diminishes the power of commercial interests to manipulate in the advertising of breastmilk substitutes.

3. Breastfeeding confirms a woman's power to control her own body - breastfeeding challenges the established medical models and business interests that promote bottle feeding

4. Breastfeeding confirms a woman's unique ability to care for her infant in the best way possible.

5. Breastfeeding challenges the view of breasts as merely sex objects.

6. Breastfeeding promotes optimum infant and maternal health.

7. Breastfeeding shows children that Women are accepting of their bodies, slowly erasing issues of an 'ideal' body.

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