Becoming a mother isn’t something that happens overnight and with only two choices for ensuring your little one gets fed; The Conversation has compiled a short blog post on ways to make breastfeeding less of a chore. By announcing your decision to your loved ones as early as possible, doing an adequate amount of research before baby arrives, managing the type and amount of food that goes into your own body and knowing your rights surrounding the issue, you’ll feel more confident about this next step with your baby.

Key Takeaways:

• Even with continent-wide encouragement to do so, most Australian women are not breast-feeding exclusively.
• The World Health Organization highly endorses exclusive breast-feeding for infants, from an hour of age to six months.
• Mothers that wants to breastfeed baby exclusively should engage loved ones to support the program by taking on household chores and other childcare, so mom and babe can bond.

“But for new mothers, establishing and continuing breastfeeding can be challenging.”

Read more: https://theconversation.com/want-to-breastfeed-these-five-things-will-make-it-easier-109507