Medical and public health experts advocate breastfeeding as the best method of feeding young infants for a wide variety of reasons.

Breastfeeding and lactational amenorrhoea play a unique role in child health, birth spacing and fertility regulation.

The practice of breast-feeding is almost universal in India. Protecting, promoting and supporting breast-feed in should be the foremost aim of all the communities. Compare the body of a lactating mother to a baby food factory and we find that she is far and away the most efficient [1].