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...called my mother last week to find out something only she would know: how long I was breast-fed. She remembered right away. "Three months," she said. "But I wish it had been longer." It turns out that my brother, who is 10 years younger, was breast-fed for seven months. Maybe, says my brother, that's why he's so much smarter than...
...referring to an article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association reporting that adults who as babies were breast-fed for seven to nine months had higher IQs than those who were breast-fed for two weeks or less. The study, conducted on 3,253 Danes born from 1959 to 1961, found that their scores on intelligence tests rose gradually the longer they had been breast-fed as babies. The average increase: about 6 points. (The average...
...course, you don't need to be a genius to know that breast-feeding is good for babies. There is simply no better food for newborns. Breast-fed babies have lower rates of hospital admission, ear infection, diarrhea, rashes, allergies and other medical problems than bottle-fed tots. Another paper last week reported that breast-feeding protects against respiratory illnesses...
...debate over how long to breast-feed a child has probably been going on as long as children have been breast-fed. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies nurse for six months and, if possible, for 12 or more. (Iron-fortified infant formula can be substituted, if necessary, but no cow's milk for a full year.) Twelve months is a long time, however, especially for working mothers. I asked June Reinisch, former director of the Kinsey Institute and one of the authors of the J.A.M.A. study, what she advises. "More is better...
...Omen The longer infants are breast-fed, the higher they are likely to score on intelligence tests as adults, reports a landmark joint U.S.-Danish study...