[Nigeria Health Watch] Breastfeeding provides essential nutrients to newborns and infants, which translate to proper growth and development from childhood to adulthood. There are many benefits to breastfeeding for both infants and mothers. These include, a reduced risk of infections, heart disease, obesity and others, for the infant and a reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancers, heart disease, etc., for the mother. It also has future economic benefits for countries. Avoidable illnesses and deaths resulting from not breastfeed
