Mother's Own Milk - Best Food For Infants

Mother's milk is the first and most ideal food for both normal as well as preterm infants, owing to its nutrition attributes, immune factors, growth factors, digestive enzymes, hormones, bioactive factors and antibacterial proteins/peptides. Advantages extended due to breast feeding of infants are reduction in the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections, respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, childhood asthma, childhood leukaemia, type I diabetes, obesity, necrotising enterocolitis and sudden infant death syndrome.