Questions and Answers About Chiropractic: Why do chiropractors encourage breastfeeding?

Chiropractic is a natural healing art that recognizes the wisdom of nature. Nature makes a perfect food for baby for optimal brain and body development. It’s called breast milk and the advantages over anything else are many.

Benefits to baby:

• Breastfeeding protects against infections including meningitis, bacteremia, diarrhea, respiratory tract infection, necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, urinary tract infection and sepsis in pre-term infants.
• Breastfed babies have less Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (CRIB death).
• Breastfeeding is associated with better grades in high school.
• Breastfed babies have less diabetes, lymphoma, leukemia, Hodgkin disease, obesity and asthma.
• Breastfed babies show enhanced cognitive development.

Benefits to mother:

• Decreased postpartum bleeding
• Faster return to pre-pregnancy weight
• Natural child spacing/family planning
• Decreased risk of breast and ovarian cancer
• Decreased risk of hip fractures and osteoporosis after menopause
• Women in their 60s who breastfed were 10% less likely to develop heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke. 
  

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  https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/nursing-basics#1