Human milk
Human milk alone is the best source of nutrients for infants and is the gold standard for good nutrition from birth up to 6 months.
Human milk provides nutrients in the quantities and proportions required to sustain an infant’s growth and development during the first months of life. It also strengthens the immune system of your baby, helps keep your baby healthy and improves development. What’s more, human milk can provide the basis of healthy nutrition until the infant is one year old or more, right until weaning is complete.
Human milk is therefore the ideal food for a normal, healthy infant. It provides adequate quantities of nutrients, in correctly balanced proportions.
The infant’s nutritional needs
All babies are different and so are their needs. This means that babies can regulate the amount of nutrition they need by taking more or less milk, both human milk and infant formula. That is how they make sure they get the right amount of energy, proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins.