This is an important decision that requires serious consideration, so you should carefully evaluate both options before making your final decision. Advantages and Disadvantages of Breastfeeding Human milk is the best possible food for any infant. In addition, there are numerous vitamins and minerals, as well as enzymes that aid the digestive and absorptive process. Formulas only approximate this combination of nutrients and don't provide the enzymes, antibodies, and many other valuable ingredients of breastmilk. There are many practical reasons to breastfeed, or nurse, your baby.
Human milk is relatively low in cost.
While maintaining a balanced diet yourself, you should increase your own caloric intake, but that costs only about half of what you'd have to spend for formula. Also, human milk needs no preparation and is instantly available at any time, wherever you may be. As an added advantage to the nursing mother, breastfeeding makes it much easier to get back into shape physically after giving birth, by using up about 500 calories a day and by helping the uterus tighten up and return more quickly to its normal size. The psychological and emotional advantages of breastfeeding are just as compelling, for both mother and child, as the physical benefits. The same hormones that stimulate milk production may also enhance feelings that enhance mothering.