I have breastfed all of my children, including twins. It’s something I truly love. Today, my guest poster Zyana is sharing some of the emotional benefits of breastfeeding your baby, because I know it isn’t always easy.
Embracing motherhood involves accepting all the natural changes that occur to your body and forming secure attachments in your baby’s infancy, ensuring an emotionally stable personality to be mirrored in an individual. Breastfeeding is a powerful symbol of motherhood and a highly emotional time for mothers, as they can feel that their hormones are all over the place. Emotions and cognition form a deep relationship with breastfeeding.
4 Instintincual & Emotional Benefits of Breastfeeding
Optimal nurturing
Every mother wishes to provide her baby with the best form of nutrition. It has been instilled in a mother naturally to start lactating and provide the optimal form of nurturing for their child through breastfeeding. The close skin-to-skin contact makes the child come closer to the parent.
Instinctive mothering behaviors and a mother’s milk supply are also stimulated. The hormones responsible for these natural reactions endow a woman to give her all to her child, emerging as a self-confident mother doing justice to all the responsibilities on her shoulder.
Satisfaction and joy of breastfeeding
Although the early stages of infancy may be quite stressful for a mother as she learns to cope up with the physical pain that might follow – besides the irrational demands of wanting to breastfeed in the most awkward of situations.
The inner satisfaction that a mother gets while watching her baby’s cries fading away as she allows him/her to cling to her chest is incomparable. To make this experience more fulfilling you can make use of convenient products during pregnancy. You can now relax and marvel at the magical feeling you get as you realize the deep physical and emotional connection that you feel with your baby. Your heart fills with an inexplicable feeling of love for your newborn as you feel his selfless and unconditional attachment with you.
Neurological and intellectual development
Just as you intend to emotionally uplift your baby at all times, not wanting any insecurity to develop and keeping them in a protected shell, you are making sure that their intellectual development is not compromised either. It is but natural that an emotionally secure and stable child will be of potential long-term benefit to the family as their brains receive both the tangible and intangible forms of nourishment. The different breastfeeding stages that your child will go through will make you realize how empowering the child will eventually make him evolve to an independent personality.
On the other hand, if you deprive your baby of the basic need of breastfeeding for prolonged hours, stress hormones released may adversely impact brain development.
Raise healthier babies by satisfying the emotional instinct
Emotional attachment and well-being continue to escalate and contribute substantially as the baby grows and matures. You will feel that your baby will be healthier, happier and heartier and will be an easy ride for you. Bonding with your baby the right way is the first step to make sure your baby is not deprived – decreasing medical costs in the long run, a boon for the family. With you and your baby de-stressed, you are sure to have a truly exhilarating experience while breastfeeding your infant.
Zyana Morris is a passionate health and lifestyle blogger who loves to write about prevailing trends. She is a featured author at various authoritative blogs in the health and fitness industry and currently working for Centra Care Kids, a Florida-based pediatric urgent care provider.
Chelsea @ Life With My Littles says
This is a great post, and these are all great things that happen when you can breastfeed your baby!