Breastfeeding Benefits for Babies

"Breastfeeding babies provides them with perfect nutrition, highly digestible and "custom-made" for each infant from its mothers' breast. This fact alone is often reason enough for women to choose nursing as the method with which they feed their babies. Breastfeeding also helps to prevent many illnesses and health problems that are relatively common to babies who are fed formula from bottles. Before women write off breastfeeding as "too much hassle" or are otherwise talked out of the practice, it's important that they are aware of what their baby will be missing without it."

- From "Breastfeeding basics: benefits for babies"

Other sources:

"Nutrient by nutrient: why breast is best" - AskDrSears.Com

"Why breastfeeding is important" - WomensHealth.Gov

"Breastfeeding" - World Health Organization