Name

: Ni Wayan Reni Putri S.

Number : 13

Good morning to the all honorable participants who comes today, my honorable lecture and my dearest friends Ladies and Gentlemen, before I begin to give a speech, I would like to invite you to thank to the God, Who has given us Blessing, so we can meet together in this occasion with healthy conditions without less anything. Ladies and Gentlemen ,now I will deliver my speech about The Importance of Exclusive Breastfeeding for a Baby. Have you heard that the first Thousand Day in our life is the most important period that will affect our future? People often called it with the Golden Ages. Why is it so important? Because in that period the babys brain and intelligence are develop so quickly and to support it the baby need many nutrition like macro nutrient and micro nutrient specially Omega 3, Folic Acid, iron and etc . And Breasts milk or we called ASI in Indonesia is the best food for the baby. Ladies and gentlemen, yet, in todays society there still some people who think that breastfeeding is unnecessary. Young mothers are mistakenly led to believe that formula milk does very well as a replacement for breast milk. It absolutely wrong! Nothing can duplicate the nutrient of breast milk, no matter how many vitamins, minerals and supplements are added to the formula milk. Thats why we as the young generation especially as a nutritionist wanna be need to make the society realize the important of breast milk and exclusive breastfeeding for the baby. Ladies and Gentlemen, exclusive breastfeeding is giving breast milk only to a baby aged 0-6 months without other additional food or drink. Breast milk is the kind of food that contains all elements that baby needs, like physical, social or psychology. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Breast milk is the natural first food for babies, it provides all the energy and nutrients that the baby needs for the first months of life, and it continues to provide up to half or more of a childs nutritional needs during the second half of the first year, and up to one-third during the second year of life. Breast milk has important ingredients, which are not found in any infant formula, to build the babys immune system. It contains complete nutrition , hormones, immune elements of growth, anti-allergy and anti- inflammatory. Breast milk is also more sterile and more cheap compared to formula milk. Ladies and Gentlemen, Breastfeeding a baby exclusively has health benefits for both the mother and child. For the mother, it can assist the uterus return to its pre-pregnant state faster can help women to lose weight after babys birth

 Develops a special emotional relationship and bonding with her child reduces the risk of ovarian cancer and pre-menopausal breast cancer reduces the risk of osteoporosis And for the baby: they will receive the most complete and optimal mix of nutrients & antibodies Breast milk will lower the risk of any diseases Breast milk is more easily digested than infant formula. It will lower the risk of diarrhea. Increased bone density Breastfeeding plays an important role in the emotional and spiritual development of babies Ladies and gentlemen, in this modern era there are still some mothers who think that breast feeding a baby is not important and it happen because of some factors like the mothers choose their work more than breastfeeding their baby because of economic condition, the less knowledge and understanding about benefit of breast milk, the influence of the older like the grandmother to give the baby complementary feeding such like banana, porridge in the wrong age specially when the baby only need the breast milk, the mother afraid that their breast will get smaller and etc. But there are also some of them who cant breastfeeding their baby because their breast cant produce the breast milk naturally. They will give their baby formula milk instead. But still breast milk is more good than formula milk because it more sterile, contains enough nutrition, has anti infections factors, and etc. Thats why we need to make the mother realize how important breastfeeding their baby exclusively. For some mother who must work, they can pump their breast milk and then put it in a bottle and save it in refrigerator so whenever the baby need the baby sitter can give that breast milk. And for the mother who cant produce breast milk naturally they can use formula milk, but we must careful in choosing formula milk, because maybe there are some substance that the producer adds to the milk and it dangerous for the babys health. To increase the mother knowledge about benefit of breast milk our government can hold some program like socialization and etc. Ladies and Gentlemen, Not much that I can say today, just a few of words above that I can deliver to you at this moment, thanks a lot for your attention and I also ask forgiveness for my mistakes. Good bye.