Health Benefits
for the Nursing Child

Medical studies have shown that breastfed babies are less prone to develop respiratory infections, childhood diabetes and childhood lymphoma than their peers who are fed artificial formula. Indeed, health authorities such as the United States Surgeon General and the American Academy of Pediatrics agree that breast milk is thebest form of infant nutrition. In addition, breastfed preterm babies tend to have a higher IQ than their formula-fed peers. The following are yet more health benefits for the nursing child:

Baby Benefits from Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding offers babies emotional security because the skin-to-skin contact assists in reducing the stress babies experience as they enter the world from the safety of the womb.
  
• The activity of sucking at the breast while breastfeeding enhances the baby's development of oral muscles and facial bones.
  
• Babies who are breastfed have fewer learning disabilities.
  
• Babies who are breastfed for less than six months have seven times the incidence of allergies as those who are breastfed longer than six months.
  

Mother Benefits from Breastfeeding
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