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Women who breastfeed their babies are protecting themselves from heart attacks and strokes in later life according to a study by University of Pittsburg researchers published in April 2009 in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

The study of almost 140,000 women found that those who breastfed for more than a year were ten times less likely to develop heart attacks and strokes than women who had never breastfed.

Even breastfeeding for a month could help reduce the chances of women developing diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholestearol. It should be as simple as ABC for Health Minister, Nicola Roxon to realise that taxpayers’ money for child care should go direct to mothers and not to child care centres so that mothers can have a choice of keeping their babies with them and breastfeeding.