Infant Feeding And Nutrition

Feeding of a child from a mother’s / woman’s breasts is referred to as breast feeding. Suckling reflex helps in sucking the milk from its mother’s breasts and drinking them. It is a wholesome source of nutrients. An infant is breast fed either by feeding through the breasts or by expressing the milk and feeding in a bottle. It is beneficial for infant developmenthe quantity of water, fat, protein and sugar in mother’s milk is in right proportion, and is apt for the infant’s growth and development.