Your breast milk contains numerous valuable components to help your baby thrive—many that the formula industry is unable to replicate. Here are some of the most important ingredients found in breast milk and how they benefit your child.
The proteins in breast milk are more easily and completely digested by babies than other types of proteins. Some examples include:
Vitamin D is being hailed as the new 'wonder vitamin' - Is your baby getting enough vitamin D?
Bone growth depends mainly on the absorption from the intestine of two minerals, calcium and phosphorus. Vitamin D is the agent that promotes this process. Without it, bones do not grow normally, causing deformities of the skeleton that in turn can lead to poor growth, anemia and potential complications such as pneumonia and tuberculosis.
Ok, so you’ve done the hard bit, a few weeks have passed and now you feel like maybe you can get back to some exercise.
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