Monday, December 9, 2013

The Multifaceted Benefits of Breastfeeding – For Mother Nature

On the last blog, we shared some of the many benefits of breastfeeding for moms. Today, we’re featuring a few of the benefits of breastfeeding for Mother Nature:

§  Breast milk is delivered to babies without any pollution, excess packaging or waste. On the other hand, producing, packaging, shipping and preparing canned formula produce tremendous ecological waste.

§  For instance, the 80,000 American moms who breastfeed their babies for six months save 17,200 tons of tin that would have been used just for formula containers.

Conversely, 74 percent of babies are being fed formula at six months, resulting in more than 44 million cans of formula that have to be produced, transported and then piled into landfills