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Breast milk is a miraculous nutrient specially produced for each baby. Breast milk, the essential source of infant nutrition, provides different benefits with every component it contains. Skin-to-skin contact with the mother during breastfeeding reduces the baby’s stress, eases the baby’s adaptation to the world, and contributes to neurobehavioral development [1]. Breast milk has many more benefits further than growth and development. The formation of the gastrointestinal microbiota, reduction in the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), protection against various diseases such as oral candidiasis, otitis media, and respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urinary tract infections, and a reduction in the mortality risk in the first months of life for any reason are some of the short-term benefits provided by breast milk [1–5].

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Kaba, Ö., Arısoy, A.E., Arısoy, E.S., Kaplan, S.L. (2023). Breastfeeding and Maternal Bacterial Infections. In: Şahin, Ö.N., Briana, D.D., Di Renzo, G.C. (eds) Breastfeeding and Metabolic Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33278-4_28

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