The health benefits that a baby gets from breastfeeding are crucial to a child's development. So the question remains, Is Breastfeeding For You? Mother's milk contains the most perfect optimal mixture of antibodies and nutrients that a child needs for their growing and developing bodies while enabling it to keep pace with the changing nutritional needs of the child. While formula has come a long way and very nutritional it has yet been able to duplicate or replace what mother's milk gives to the child.