The BREAST and its significance in the 21st century!

   This picture showing a mother (and a fellow blogger), breast-feeding her baby at a wedding has gone viral on instagram. It has attracted over 2000 likes and more than 200 comments many of whom are commending the mother. This has brought to the fore, the significance of the breast in our society today. The breast has so much received a whole lot of hype as a sex-symbol that a lot of people are losing site of its life-sustaining function. In my society, Africa (Nigeria to be precise) we often look at a person when he or she is behaving stupidly, we ask, " were you fed your mother's breast milk at all?
    Well, today is the first day of March and come the first day of AUGUST, the world once again will focus on the need for breast-feeding towards the sustenance of human life here on earth.
   
Breastfeeding is essential for our babies. Why?   It provides a child with all the anitbodies and nutrients she or he needs to stop from getting ill in the future.
But won't a formula do the same thing?   No.   Tests have shown that babies fed with formula have had lower scores on brain development and a greater risk of getting diseases like childhood lymphoma, or breast cancer in their later years.   Stopping breastfeeding too early will also increase these risks.

   However, alot of women are afraid of their breast sagging. Experts say its not the breast feeding that does the sagging but rather other issues like the pregnancy itself, type of bra you were regularly, your eating habits, and of course aging. Come to think of it, those ballons will not last forever.
   So, in conclusion, mothers, which one is more important to you; a robust breast with a malnourished always-sick child; or a saggy breast (which you can always enhance with bras, exercise and extremes like surgery) and a well-fed, healthy and intelligent child? The choice is yours.
 
  Lady blogger, please keep taking care of your business, any time any where. LOL!