Feeding your newborn baby Feeding your newborn baby Feeding time for your infant is more than just inserting the breast or bottle in the baby's mouth. It's a time when your baby is receiving calories and nutrients that will sustain its health throughout life. This is a time for bonding for both infant and mother, whether breast or bottle feeding.
Infants reflexes such as hearing, sight, sound, touch, taste and smell are all busy working here.
We all have read and heard over the years that women are capable and come well designed to breastfeed their children. Doing this gives the infant certain immunity to sickness and infections. Whey is the ingredient in mother's milk that outweighs all the other types of milk. Lactose is also more predominant in breast milk, which plays a role in calcium absorption and brain development in the infant child. Vitamins and minerals are already in breast milk.