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Breast feeding contributes very importantly to the bonding process which is now widely acknowledged to play such an important part in human development. Certainly, the importance of bonding can be appreciated when the act of birth is considered from the baby's point of view.
Leaving the warmth, darkness and silence of the womb, and at the same time immediately transferring from one system of breathing to another, makes birth the greatest of all the life-changes, and as such highly stressful in itself.
Immediate bonding between mother and child can do much to reduce the 'distress' of birth: if the mother can hold the baby close to her immediately it is born, this will do much to provide the best possible start to life with minimum stress.
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