Your body supplied your baby with all of her needs while she was inside you. Your breast milk will be all she needs to nourish her for the first four to six months of life.
Breast milk is the perfect food for babies.
It also offers your baby protection from germs. Breast-fed babies have fewer colds, ear infections, and episodes of diarrhea than formula fed babies. Babies can digest the protein in breast milk, much better and more completely than the protein in cows' milk. Breast-feeding has advantages for you, too. Women who breast-feed are better able to control their weight, because their bodies are burning calories to make milk.