- Pregnancy & Childbirth - Attachment Parenting - Family
Nutrition - Family Wellness Whether it is the milk, the mother,
or the method that is responsible for the lower SIDS risk in the
breastfed infant is hard to tell. It's probably a combination of
all three. There are hundreds of substances in human milk that
aren't in artificial milk. These cannot be manufactured or
bought; they can only be made by mother. Each year researchers
discover new factors in human milk that are beneficial to baby.
I suspect that researchers have only scratched the surface of
what amazing factors exist in human milk. The following is what
we know. What is even more intriguing is what we do not yet know
about how human milk benefits human babies in general and how it
lowers the risk of SIDS in particular. 1. Breastmilk fights
against infection. Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections
contribute to the SIDS risk, and breastfeeding infants get fewer
respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. Breastfeeding
protects against RSV