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...instance, Poussaint recalls a time he objected to a scene that showed the youngest Huxtable daughter, Rudy, crying as her mother combed her hair. The image, Poussaint said, fed into hurtful stereotypes in the black community of good and bad hair...
...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...
...there may be a subtler explanation for why breast-fed babies are smarter. Think of the duration of breast-feeding as a measure of the interest, time and energy that a mother is willing to invest in the child during the whole upbringing period. As the authors note, it may be that "mothers who spend more time breast-feeding during the first year of life also spend more time later interacting with the child...
Whatever the reason, the bottom line is the same. "If you can breast-feed, do it," says Reinisch. For the record, Reinisch is a very smart woman with a Ph.D., yet she was never breast-fed. I was breast-fed only briefly, and while I think I probably could have used a few extra IQ points, my mother assures me that I turned out just fine...