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By pediatrician Harald Bjelke
Mother's milk is the child's natural nourishment from birth until it is at least half a year old. It contains all the substances the child needs and is composed and adapted for the child in the same way as cow's milk is for the calf. No animal's milk can wholly replace mother's milk, even if the animal's milk is sought made as like mother's milk as possible through additions and dilution.
Besides protein, sugar, fat, and salts, mother's milk also contains the necessary vitamins as well as other substances that directly protect the child against infectious and other diseases.
The mother who does not give her child the breast deprives the child of the nourishment it has a right to according to nature's order, and she thereby exposes it to needless dangers and possible harm in the future. Mother's milk is the foundation of the child's natural growth and thriving, and anyone with a little knowledge of children can see the difference between a breastfed child and a bottle-fed child, even if the latter has been given the most correct and regularly carried-out artificial feeding that can be given.
The breastfed child is not only sturdier and livelier than the artificially fed child, but it has, over and above this, a far greater power of resistance against all the bacteria it is gradually exposed to — not only when it comes to the serious infectious diseases, but also against common cold ailments, bronchitis, and the like.
Can all mothers then give the breast? Yes, it must be reckoned a rarity that a mother cannot give her child at least some breast milk. At least 90 % of mothers can breastfeed if they set about the task in full earnest.