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What are the benefits of breastfeeding?
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There are numerous benefits to breastfeeding. These include providing essential nutrition to infants, improving infant health outcomes, supporting maternal-infant bonding, helping to establish a regular sleep schedule, and promoting cost savings to families. Breastfeeding also has many other benefits, such as protecting infants from infections, providing key vitamins and minerals, enhancing cognitive development, helping with weight control, and even providing protection from allergies and other long-term illnesses. Lastly, breastfeeding provides women with an incredibly powerful and positive form of self-care.