Mother’s milk is the less than 6 months old baby’s best food.The nutritional content of breast milk is perfect for the baby’s physical needs,which is rich in the immune substances to increase the baby’s resistance to disease, having few allergic reactions, but also make the relationship between mother and child stronger, and it is helpful to the baby’s psychological development and post-natal maternal physical recovery;besides,it don’t need to be sterilized by heating,having the benefits of healthy, economical, convenient and so on.

In addition,Breastfeeding helps to prevent infants and young children to be fat.Inappropriate feeding the infants and young children is one of the reasons for children’s obesity.Improper feeding includes the artificial excessive feeding and too earlily adding complementary feeding of these two factors.A well-known research institution in the UK did a random survey for some infant-feeded histories and found that the artificial over-fed infants increased the incidence of childhood obesity obviously,while the breastfeeding infants is not easy to become fat in childhood.