These are my favorite breastfeeding links. Enjoy!
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A Few Breastfeeding Facts
- Formula-fed babies have (on average) an IQ 8.3 points lower
than breastfed children at the age of 8 years.
- Formula-fed children have approximately $1400 MORE in medical costs
during their first year of life.
- Mothers who breastfeed their children have a lower risk of breast
and cervical cancers.
- A child's immune system isn't completely functional until about
age 3. Until then he needs his mother's immunities to protect him.
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REMEMBER: Human Milk for Human Babies!
This page last updated on July 17, 1998.
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