Breast Feeding

In the reading it mentioned that breast feeding was best for the baby.  It mentioned the first milk to come in which is really milk but colostrum, a thick high calorie fluid.  This milk last about three days.  The breast milk also changes as the baby grow and nutritional needs change.  The CDC reports that children who are breast fed have few colds and have an immunity other infection because immunity is passed through the mother milk to the baby.  Babies that are breast fed have few incident of SIDS, type2 diabetes and being over weight. The CDC as well as the World Health Organization encourage mothers to breast fed for the first year, if that is not possible then the first six months. 
The benefit to the mother are many too.  Lowers the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Return to pre-pregnancy weight faster, reduces uterine bleeding and aids in stopping ovulation(natural family planning).
I have breast-fed in the past with both my daughters, so I feel very comfortable with others feeding their babies this way.  I have encouraged it with my families I care for.  Moms can either pump here or feed  their baby here. I will  use their milk to feed their baby. If the mom is not comfortable feeding in my classroom I have an area set up for a quiet space they can use, the same goes for pumping if needed.  
Many rural area of the world lack clean drinking water making breast feding the best way for an infant to recieve nutrition for the first six month if not the first year of the babies life.
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/breastfeeding/en/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/research/index.htm 
Stassen Berger,K.(2009) The develping person.Worth Publishers. New York, New York