The practice of feeding infants or even a young child with breast milk from woman?s breasts directly is called breastfeeding. Human breast milk which is by all way natural is the healthiest way recommended for milk intake by infants and new born babies. Six months is generally the duration recommended by physicians to put the infants or new born babies to breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding can owe a child good health only if the feeder is known to be free from infections due to HIV or tuberculosis and is not under the prescription of any drugs. Infant deaths in both developing and developed countries can be attributed to many factors, the mast important being artificial feeding. For an infant to stay healthy now and in the future drawn from his own immunity, it calls for breastfeeding. My next post will be about, benefit of breast feeding.