Breastfeeding For Pleasure...The Added Bonus of Hormones
Why do women breastfeed?
Did you know that in addition to being the superior food for human babies that breastfeeding offers emotional or 'mental health' benefits?
Breastfeeding helps to decrease a woman's stress level. The brain releases a hormone, oxytocin, which induces a state of 'euphoria' or feeling of well-being everytime a mother breastfeeds. Babies get the benefit of oxytocin when they breastfeed and so do Dads when they snuggle skin to skin with their baby.
Breastfeed! Guaranteed to make you feel fabulous!
Debbie Page, RN, IBCLC, CEIM
www.thenewbornbaby.com