We’ve all heard how good breastfeeding is for a baby but now there’s a new study that shows how much breastfeeding also benefits the mother. This was in the NY Times a couple of days ago but I couldn’t resist pointing it out – Breast-Feeding Benefits Mothers, Study Finds. Here’s the crux:
“The benefits increase with duration of past breast-feeding, the study found. Women who had breast-fed for more than a year in their entire lifetimes were almost 10 percent less likely than those who had never breast-fed to have had a heart attack or a stroke in their postmenopausal years. They were also less likely to have diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.”
Just one more thing to think about at 3am when you’re up feeding the baby for the 4th time and trying not cry yourself.