The economic value of breastfeeding to the society at large is under researched and its importance as a preventive public health strategy is underestimated. (internationalbreastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com)
The media constantly focus on negative stories that seem to forget the functional, maternal, and nutritionally precious value of breastfeeding. (breastfeedingtoday-llli.org)
Because of these many values of breastfeeding for both mothers and their babies, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) both recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life and then supplemented breastfeeding for at least one year and up to two years or more. (babyslingsandcarriers.com)