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Momma's Milk Persuasive Speech Outline

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Momma’s Milk is Better for Baby

Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to breastfeed their future newborn and to avoid feeding them formula.
Central Idea: Every mother will instinctively want the best for her child beginning with the first moments of life. Mother’s have the choice of breastfeeding their baby or feeding them formula. It is important, therefore, to understand the uncomparable benefits that breastfeeding and breast milk has compared to feeding with formula. From health benefits, stronger emotional bonding, and cost, it is clear that breastfeeding is the healthiest start for an infant.
Introduction:
1. Attention Catcher / Listener Relevance: Natural is always better. This is definitely the case when it comes to feeding your future newborn. The last ten years, I’ve worked as a Registered Nurse on the Mother …show more content…

First Main Point: Breast milk is natural and is a living substance made by each mother for her individual infant, a product that can't be duplicated by an artificial substance.
A. Subpoint: Nutritional content of breastmilk vs. formula (Winder, 2016). (VISUAL AID)
a. Sub-subpoint: The cells, hormones, and antibodies in breast milk help protect babies from illness. Exclusive breastfeeding reduces infant mortality due to illnesses such as diarrhea and pneumonia (World Health Organization [WHO], 2018). Therefore, this protection is unique and changes every day to meet the baby’s growing needs.
B. Subpoint: Breastfed infants have less difficulty with digestion than do formula-fed infants. Breast milk tends to be more easily digested so that breastfed babies have fewer bouts of diarrhea or constipation (WHO, 2018). Breast milk components includes lactose, protein such as whey and casein, and fat which are easily digested by a newborn (Ballard and Morrow, 2013).

Transition: In additional to nutritional value, breastfeeding itself helps to promote the bonding between mother and infant ultimately offering better emotional

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