The growth and intelligence of children are developed with the help of many other factors aside from breastmilk.
In the United State, the exclusive breastfeeding campaign has led to the growth and adoption of "baby-friendly" notion by hospitals, most of which now encourages breastfeeding as the norm.
A woman gets criticized breastfeeding her friend's son.
In honor of breastfeeding week, thousands of mothers from all over the world breastfed their babies in public.
Researchers from the Israel Center for Disease Control and the University of Haifa have discovered that breast-fed babies have a reduced risk for childhood leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer. The study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, shows that breast-fed children and teens-who were breast-fed for at least six months-are 19 percent less likely to develop childhood leukemia than their counterparts breast-fed for less than six months.
In a long-term study conducted by researchers in Brazil, babies who have been breastfed are more intelligent and are more successful as adults.
