A new paper looks at the relationship between breastfeeding and childhood disability. The author finds that a longer duration of breastfeeding is associated with a slightly lower risk of child disability:
Feed with Love and Respect
Breastfeeding is the optimal way to satisfy an infant's nutritional and emotional needs. "Bottle Nursing" adapts breastfeeding behaviors to bottle-feeding to help initiate a secure attachment. Follow the feeding cues for both infants and children, encouraging them to eat when they are hungry and stop when they are full. Offer healthy food choices and model healthy eating behavior.
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Only about 37% of babies around the world are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The benefits of breastfeeding for both infants and mothers are well-established. |
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Research has shown that children who were breastfed score higher on IQ tests and perform better in school, but the reason why remained unclear. Now a new study shows that two parenting skills deserve the credit. |
Mothers may say they don't care whether they have a son or a daughter, but their breast milk says otherwise. |
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Raising an infant is an act of ecosystem engineering. You’re not just caring for a baby, but an entire world. |
Children who were breastfed for more than six months scored the highest on cognitive, language and motor development tests as toddlers, in a new study from Greece. |
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Breastfeeding in infancy may protect against both poor mental well-being and obesity in childhood. |
In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at least fo Read more |
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United Nations agencies are promoting breastfeeding to avoid unnecessary illness and deaths of children in the wake of the disaster wrought on the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) earlier this month. |
Corporal Anjannete Obligado only went to the makeshift hospital at the Tacloban airport to bring a woman who had passed out after hours of lining up for a seat in a C130 flight out of the city. |
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