Nature’s Perfect Food

Picasso

A mother and her baby are bonded by the closest possible  human relationship—-for nine months they are almost one person.  The mother’s body supplying everything needed for her baby to grow.  There is an intense unspoken communication that exists, her baby knows her voice and her scent. Once her baby is born this bond continues, as her body manufactures milk specifically for her child, even if her baby is premature or sick.   As her baby grows, the breast milk changes, adapting to the changing needs of her baby.

As important as breast milk is for the baby’s optimum development, the act of caressing your baby while nursing is as important.  This feeling of closeness and connection is incomparable and lasting for both mother and child.