Feeding your baby formula food may answer the twin needs of convenience for back-to-work Moms. But, what about the long term consequences? Your baby's life long health risks, your family's health care expenses and an increased risk for prolonged bed wetting may be included in the price.

When is bed wetting "normal", and when does it inch into the abnormal and chronic segment? To answer this by the time you're in anxiety-knots trying to stop bed wetting means you might be too late. You may have missed the simplest "natural" solution available to you at you baby's birth, namely mother's breast milk.

Whatever Happened To Old Fashioned Breast Feeding?

Remarkably, only around 42% of Moms leave the hospital after delivery and will exclusively breast feed their Baby. Reasons? Social customs combining with physicians' training and the emergence of a market for baby formula food manufacturers have turned baby-care practices upside down. Add to this trend the initial difficulty that new Moms experience in getting their breast milk to flow and you've got the perfect combination of factors.

The Likely "Link" Between Breast Feeding And Bed Wetting.

There is no simple bed wetting cure. Hard science remains open as to a provable direct cause-and-effect relationship, yet some trend numbers seem to point to some practical realities. In a 2006 study 55% of the bed wetting kids from ages 5 to 13 were fed manufactured baby formula food. In the research "control" panel over 80% of the children commencing life with Mom's milk didn't wet their beds after age 5.

Night Time Bed Wetting In Older Kids - Causes And Future Issues.

Even healthy kids can develop night time bed wetting, or enuresis, into what appears to be a chronic pattern, absent medical issues or psychological triggers. Some behavioral scientists theorize that this tendency is family-gene based, therefore hereditary in nature. Implications? The future-projection side of the theory suggests that night time bed wetting implies a delayed neurological development in the girl or boy. Meaning? Parents might just be getting a hint as to future cognitive and behavioral delays or vulnerabilities in their child, such as an amplified susceptibility to peer pressure, early drug experimentation and so on.

What's Making Mom's Milk So Incredible?

New Moms just naturally produce the most remarkable life-enhancing and complete food for babies. Right-now-hunger is immediately satiated at the same time as breast milk is conferring long term life long health advantages. Breast fed babies score higher IQ's and show enhanced visual aptitudes, two clear markers of neurological development. Breast milk also delivers a powerful mix of long chain proteins and fats, in a blend that changes over the initial 5 months, to deliver a powerful boost to Baby's immune system that will be a plus-factor for life. Breast feeding babies now appears to directly boost babies' immune system, lowering risk of infection, as well as offering protections against diabetes and adult obesity.

Bottom Line Of Bed Wetting And Breast Feeding. All the most contemporary research shows that Moms should try to breast feed exclusively for up to 6 months, and this is not exclusively for technical health reasons but also for the deep psychological bond and soothing experience that a suckling baby creates. There are trained professional breast feeding consultants, or lactation specialists available at many hospitals to help guide new Moms.

In the early toddler bed wetting phase, normal sorts of training will work in most cases, along with a bed wetting pad or even one of the new alarm devices that wake up and train the child that she's peeing. Bed wetting in an older child can prove challenging, especially where the bed wetting pattern is deeply imbedded, and of course is exacerbated by the practical fact that a larger child will produce more pee for clean ups.